Word: egghead
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Victor Mature, as the Greek slave Demetrius, is believable in a role similar to many he has played before. Jay Robinson, however, is scarcely plausible as a crotchety and petulant Caligula. While many have thought this emperor a monster, Robinson makes him a caricature of a contemporary egghead...
Republican Egghead...
...while, last fall, I had it all straight in my head that an egghead was no Republican, and vice versa. Now you write up [Aug. 17] this fellow [Massachusetts' Governor] Herter, who sounds like a right guy to me, and if ever I heard an egghead described, to the life, it's Herter. The fellow reads books, understands art, thinks and is a Republican...
During the 1952 presidential campaign, liberal U.S. intellectuals-in-politics resented the term "egghead," reading it as part of an attack against intellectuality as such. British intellectuals, particularly of the left wing, have shown similar indignation against similar remarks. Last week Australian Colin Clark, a distinguished political economist now lecturing at Oxford, suggested that the debate is narrower than a supposed issue between intellectuals and "know-nothings...
Braaten writes from Madrid, "I couldn't figure out any other way to get an egghead, a figurehead, and a hardheaded fund-raiser into the same cartoon. If this looks as though it were done between trains in a dingy Bilbao hotel room lit by a single naked bulb, it's because it was. Of course, it would have looked the same if it had been done in a north-lighted studio overlooking the Seine, but a guy has to have some excuse...