Word: eggheaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your great weight to glamorizing intelligence and memory (Van Doren) should earn you new praises. Look what glamorizing did for sex, athletics and big business. Let us hope it can do the same for mental powers. A great many teachers and "students" are probably adding their thanks to the egghead...
...first to nominate Charles Van Doren as the "Man of the Year." And in the even far more distant future, I would nominate this particular egghead as the 1960 replacement for Adlai Stevenson (if he were 35 by then). By way of politics, which camp claims Charlie Van Doren...
...instructor who inherits the brilliance of the literary Van Doren clan, also enjoys a stranger triumph. Just by being himself, he has enabled a giveaway show, the crassest of lowbrow entertainments, to whip up a doting mass audience for a new kind of TV idol-of all things, an egghead...
...three years of publication, the Democratic Digest has served mostly as a canape tray laden with fancily garnished political tidbits. Adlai Stevenson's egghead followers thought it had the flavor of real caviar. But most ordinary folks considered it just plain fish eggs-and rancid at that. Result: the Digest lost $200,000 in struggling toward a monthly circulation...
Republican Robert Braucher, professor of Law, also noted a considerable anti- Stevenson sentiment. But he felt it was chiefly and egghead reaction to Stevenson's attempt to become a "baby-Kissing" candidate...