Word: eggheaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slim, fit-looking man. he dresses in dignified executive grey, parades a lofty moral code: "Business ethics aren't good enough for trade unions." But in just two days last week, Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets investigating committee stripped away the veneer, exposed Egghead Gibbons as blood brother to the purple-jawed hoods and goons who have filed before the committee for two solid weeks...
...anything. Egghead Gibbons' committee appearance proved only that pretensions to learning can be a dangerous thing. Alternately arrogant ("I cannot be responsible for the inadequacies of your staff") and evasive ("Don't expect me to say yes or no in this instance"), Gibbons left the stand to rejoin the high-binding band that conducts Teamster affairs. It was very unlikely that smooth-talking Harold Gibbons would ever field another invitation to lecture at Harvard...
Women, Muscle Men, Sophisticated Ivy League, Jolly, Scrambled Egghead...
...records two vivid and poignant modern samples of ravaged Roman: General Stilwell's World War II motto, "Illegitimati non carborundum [Don't let the bastards grind you down],' and Adlai Stevenson's classic cry of anguish, "Via oviciptum dura est [The way of the egghead is hard...
Despite this disparity of motives, they make tender and tempestuous lovers. With scarcely a lapse of taste or skill. Author Koningsberger captures the many-splendored hues of fleshly delight. His lovers' neopaganism is sunny, not steamy. But the clouds soon gather. Toni, who is an egghead, likes to air his notions on Hegel, physics, films, money and 20th-century man. Catherine would rather listen to a record of Oh! Look at Me Now! five times...