 michellezm says: "The promotion of the individual rights of the people of America necessarily involves resistance to war in any form, as war inevitably must destroy those rights and clamp additional governmental rule down upon the people... only those who resist war to the utmost, and with their last breath and last ounce of energy, can be considered as truly fighting to save this country for democracy". William James Sidis When I think of America again, Of what it could be, or was meant to be, I shall see Sidis, with the light upon His face, the light of genius, that made him more An angel than a man. He was no failure. You could roll Harvard, its professors and Its learning into one. He could have taught That one. The proof? Not one in Harvard knew Enough to honor him... Mrs. Nathan Sharman, Lament for Bill Sidis (1944) i love this.<3 I like michellezm’s comment. I have seen it posted on other sites as well (I am not sure who wrote it first though). The clip itself is from Grady Towers’ “The Outsiders”. A large percentage of popular online myths about William Sidis came from “The Outsiders”. “The Outsiders” (1987) was based on “The Prodigy” (1986) plus a lot of half-truths and inventions. “The Prodigy” was predominately a sensationalized account of hearsay and invention. As an example, “The Prodigy” claimed that Sperling gave Sidis an IQ test for a civil service job and estimated Sidis’ IQ at 250-300. Sperling himself wrote in “A Story of Genius” that Sidis’ sister, Helena, told him that a psychiatrist had given William ... |
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