Word: egghead
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...departments of their Faculty supporters, and indicated they were not unhappy with the image of a Harvard nucleus for their campaign. Spokesmen for the McCormack and Kennedy supporters shied away from citing a list of their backers at Harvard, however, claiming that their campaigns were based not on "egghead braintrusts," but on diversified and widespread party support...
...This is the President's Easter egghead roll," he quipped...
...Republican members of Congress. Flaunting their Cambridge-induced independence of mind by wearing their three-button suits, the old boys did not hesitate to bite the hand that had fed them knowledge. "A Harvard professor." proclaimed Ohio's Representative John Ashbrook ('52), "is an egghead who thinks the American eagle needs two left wings." The consensus was best expressed by New York's Senator Kenneth Keating (LL.B. '23 ): "It's about time it is known that Harvard turns out enlightened men as well as Democrats...
...bitten campaigner, has been frightened out of his dimmish wits by a directive. To hold his rank, he must pass a college test; to pass the test, he is bribing the post education officer with every last field jacket and wall locker in his supply room. Peter Fonda, an egghead private who goes psycho at the sight of an unsheathed bayonet, offers to tutor McGavin, and soon he is running a class for every Neanderthal man on the post...
...Author Barzun's own wares in the sweetshop include paperback editions of five of his books. He is also a director (along with Fellow Intellectuals Lionel Trilling and W. H. Auden) of the Mid-Century Book Society, a kind of egghead's book-of-the-month club...