Word: eggheaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chicago's Patroness of Arts Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, announced that The Egghead and I (a collection of "essays, satirical verse and excerpts from my diaries concerning the 'egghead' in national affairs-a problem we all face") is now "canceled" and will not be published as previously vouchsafed (TIME, Aug. 20). Ellen had pestered many publishers to vent her polemic, but had failed to crash through with a manuscript. Muttered one Chicago literary agent: "She had a good title, and that was about it." Despite her provocative title, Ellen Borden Stevenson...
...candidate, Alexander Cella '51, maintained, "Voters in my district think a Harvard education is a political asset." Cella, who delivers 20 per cent of the lectures in Government 140, State, admitted that there are those who think an egghead has no place in practical politics. But, he argues, an understanding of the theory of politics, as well as the reality, is the perfect combination...
...have no worries about the 'egghead vote,'" Peck stated, "but only about the regular people who sat on their hands four years age. And there is a question as to whether (University supporters) are the right people to cope with this problem...
...ghost of a chance in November, you are to be commended for your fine article, "The Other Adlai." It's high time you demonstrated a kindlier attitude towards Adlai because, incredible as it may seem, there are quite a few of us that really love that "egghead...
...disappointed in TIME, Aug. 20 for the low blow it dealt Adlai Stevenson in publishing the foolish picture of the ex-Mrs. Stevenson and printing her even more foolish remarks [concerning The Egghead and /]. Shame on you. And I'm a Republican and expect to vote for Eisenhower...