But the public's embrace of such theoretically unfashionable concepts in Bloom's book as "poetic genius, great intelligence in art, terms that postmodernists dismiss," argues that "we'd better look very carefully not at what Bloom's doing, but what we're doing in the academy".
It is not retardation, as that is based solely on intellectual functioning, and people with autism can have average to genius level intelligence.
"The difference between village idiot and genius-level intelligence might be trivial from the point of view of how hard it is to replicate the same functionality in a machine," he said.
A slight, skinny kid, with genius-level intelligence, he volunteered as soon as he could for commando training in the Israeli army and became a fearless soldier, commended for bravery by Moshe Dayan.
I wish I could attribute my good grades to my genius-level intelligence, but that would be a lie.
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Tinker is my least original selection as most readers or moviegoers will know about George Smiley's struggle with Moscow's presiding intelligence genius Karla.
It's a riff on Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras, but instead of ending up with an intelligence genius in a Hong Kong hotel room, we're with a gorgeous, young French woman (Camille Rutherford) at a spa retreat in Argentina.
And he inspired a memorable tribute from America's greatest man of letters, Edmund Wilson: "You are something of a theatrical genius with an intelligence and imagination together with an ability to make them effective, which are excessively rare on Broadway".
Sometimes we equate genius with raw intelligence.
