Word: eggheaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City premiere. The production had enlisted a somewhat disparate but unquestionably distinguished group of the biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived via the egghead circuit." But virtue was rewarded, for J.B. proved to be "a sort of theatrical thunderbolt that strikes about once in a decade," according to Newsweek, "... a burst of magnificent, enthralling theatre that kept a fascinated audience of first-nighters applauding long after the stage hands wanted to call...
...Combs launched, the anti-Chandler field got crowded by the gubernatorial announcement of Wilson Watkins Wyatt, 53, onetime Louisville mayor (1941-45), and personal campaign manager for Adlai Stevenson in 1952. Backed by the Stevenson-prone Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, Wyatt was too much of a city egghead to suit Clements' plans...
...politico-national sphere, horse-trading proceeded at a marey pace. Longtime Lucenemy Sen. Wayne Morse, Oregon egghead, failed in a gauche bid to mass ouster votes. Appointment won overwhelming approval in the Senate, world's poshest club...
...worth his whisky as an all-round actor (he is currently playing Lincoln in the Broadway production of The Rivalry). The name of his TV character, Paladin, is meant to suggest a knight errant. But the hero of Have Gun, Witt Travel is actually just a hard-boiled egghead, western style, who spouts Shakespeare while the lead flies, smokes 58? cigars, advises the public to "try marinating venison in whisky." He is a private eye in peewees, and though he always brings the villain to account, he usually tempers justice with money. At 41, bulb-nosed, thrice-married Actor Boone...
...book, The Professor and I (Appleton-Century-Crofts; $3.95), Dorothy Van Doren reveals that her husband is an addict "not of the super, the egghead, type of program . . . but of mysteries, westerns, crime stories, true stories and a quiz or two. He is lost. I get myself comfortable on the living-room sofa by the fire with a book, and presently I hear the beginning of the idiot commercial and know it has started again. Sometimes I watch too; sometimes I stick to the book. But the professor is faithful-all too often he is faithful. One evening there...