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Believe it or not. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
Harper's Magazine; 11/1/2002; Noel, Daniel; 278 words
; ... Voice of the Lonely Crowd, Readings, August] about the feeblemindedness of religion has, in these times when we are terrorized ... in the modern period has produced what Amis laments as feeblemindedness. And although neither Arnold nor Leavis, let alone political ...
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Arts: The Weekly Poem; DOG FOX FIELD.(Features)
The Independent (London, England); 5/8/2001; Murray, Les; 176 words
; The test for feeblemindedness was, they had to make up a sentence using the words dog, fox and field (`Judgement at Nuremberg') These were no leaders, but they ...
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Arts: The Weekly Poem DOG FOX FIELD
The Independent - London; 5/8/2001; LES MURRAY; 176 words
; "The test for feeblemindedness was, they had to make up a sentence using the words dog, fox and field" (`Judgement at Nuremberg') These were no leaders, but they ...
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 "The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Line between science and ideology at center of eugenics, DNA.
The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 10/30/2003; 787 words
; ... exhorted them to get fit. But junk food and flab were not the problems. Rather, the culprits were unfit human traits such as feeblemindedness, criminality, insanity, alcoholism (and) pauperism, as a 1929 Kansas state fair exhibit proclaimed. Americans were urged ...
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The ignorance of the elites; Misunderstanding history and the Constitution.(OPED)
The Washington Times; 3/4/2008; 787 words
; ... who can most effectively misquote, mischaracterize and misrepresent the U.S. Constitution. On television, this contest of feeblemindedness usually has a predictable winner - whoever speaks last. On NBC's Chris Matthews Show on Sept. 2, host and panelists discussed ...
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Idiot warnings no remedy for fundamental stupidity
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 5/29/2000; LEONARD PITTS; 634 words
; ... would you figure? Yes, I know I'm being awfully rude. It's just that I find myself deeply annoyed lately at the way your feeblemindedness -- and, more importantly, mine -- are considered a foregone conclusion by the people who make and market the stuff we buy ...
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Silent minority
Evening Standard - London; 2/11/2000; 200 words
; ... should think hard before casting their vote. But the fact that almost 300 should simply fail to turn up at all suggests feeblemindedness on a remarkable scale. Never did the term "issue of conscience" appear more ironic: the absent honourable members' lack ...
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 "The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)")
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FORCED STERILIZATION IS A STATE TRAGEDY.(EDITORIAL)
The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC); 12/16/2002; 424 words
; ... the poor, sick, black and mentally ill into undergoing permanent sterilization. The thinking was that many traits, from feeblemindedness to epilepsy, were due entirely to genetics, and that by eliminating the reproductive capacity of undesirables, the state ...
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 "Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)")
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Interview: Kevin Begos of the Winston-Salem Journal discusses the North Carolina program that sterilized over 7,600 people
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR); 12/15/2002; LIANE HANSEN; 787 words
; ... what would be some reasons? Mr. BEGOS: Officially the reasons were epilepsy, mental illness or feeblemindedness, but the feeblemindedness was the huge catch-all and that could be anything from someone who really had some severe mental ...
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Czars: 400 Years of Imperial grandeur; The splendor of Russia on view at The Pyramid
Tri-State Defender; 7/24/2002; Dobbins, Sharon E.; 787 words
; ... schism; thus to social oppression was added religious prosecution. In the royal court murder, adultery, sexual perversion, feeblemindedness, political corruption (you name it, it happened) reigned supreme. Tsar Peter I the Great's own half sister Sophia tried ...
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