Word: eggheaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your intellectuality (Joachim's egghead children) was far too scrambled for this eggnostic...
What manner of being is an egghead? Do you mean a sort of Martini-sipping Guru of beer-guzzling disciples? Or just anyone in whom intellect surpasseth understanding? . . . Perhaps . . . your readers can give us a clarifying definition of this intriguing word coinage ... So many of TIME'S readers in your Letters column acknowledge being eggheads, we should certainly be able to pin this thing down...
Perhaps this will help in the egghead discussion: 1) an intellectual is a person who is well-informed and intelligent; 2) a liberal intellectual is an intellectual who espouses liberal political programs; 3) an egghead is a person (possibly intellectual) who for profit, publicity or in the search of power espouses liberal political programs...
...term egghead was, if I gather rightly, originally intended to be a bit derogatory, indicating a capacity for and a preoccupation with mental activity of a particular kind, limited in its scope, and by no means resulting in an orderly process of thought capable of producing wise decision, nor of envisaging constructive and adequate planning for this nation's life, liberty and happiness. Alger Hiss is an egghead, Whittaker Chambers is an egghead, with a latent streak of common sense. There are all kinds of eggheads-neurotic, paranoiac, schizophrenic. There are also harmless and normal eggheads, including...
...electorate, however, was not looking for an egghead ... At work in its mind was what Barrett Wendell of Harvard described as "the awful sanity of the average...