S(TEPHEN JAY) GOULD, THE MISMEASURE OF MAN — What craniometry was for the nineteenth century, intelligence testing has become for the twentieth, when it assumes that intelligence (or at least a dominant part of it) is a single, innate, heritable and measurable thing.
A. | Term introduced in 1834 that superseded "natural philosopher" | SCIENTIST |
B. | Sir Francis ____, the founder of Answer I. | GALTON |
C. | Black cat, e.g. | OMEN |
D. | Release, disenthrall | UNFETTER |
E. | Tool for creating rolling pins | LATHE |
F. | British naturalist who dropped out of medical school | DARWIN |
G. | Headwear for W. C. Fields (2 wds.) | TOPHAT |
H. | Member of a Bronze Age empire of Asia Minor | HITTITE |
I. | Study of supposed improvements to the human race | EUGENICS |
J. | One guided by a counselor | MENTEE |
K. | Penetrate surreptitiously | INFILTRATE |
L. | Enfold, as one might a baby | SWATHE |
M. | Widely used assessment of personality preferences (hyph.) | MYERSBRIGGS |
N. | Stretch, as people's heads in the paintings of Amedeo Modigliani | ELONGATE |
O. | Opposite; second of Hegel's three dialectics | ANTITHESIS |
P. | 1954 Audrey Hepburn title role; 1990s-2000s sitcom witch | SABRINA |
Q. | Disc sport; nth | ULTIMATE |
R. | Psychologist who used symmetrical drawings | RORSCHACH |
S. | Author of a children's book featuring an influential "webmaster" (3 wds.) | EBWHITE |
T. | Baker's dozen minus an ennead plus a foursome | OCTET |
U. | Ballpark that's home to the Green Monster | FENWAY |
V. | Member of a pacifist religious group | MENNONITE |
W. | Woody Allen film that spawned a "menswear" fashion craze for women (2 wds.) | ANNIEHALL |
X. | Generously skulled being; slow-witted or crude person | NEANDERTHAL |