Word: eggheaded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican members of Congress. Flaunting their Cambridge-induced independence of mind by wearing their three-button suits, the old boys did not hesitate to bite the hand that had fed them knowledge. "A Harvard professor." proclaimed Ohio's Representative John Ashbrook ('52), "is an egghead who thinks the American eagle needs two left wings." The consensus was best expressed by New York's Senator Kenneth Keating (LL.B. '23 ): "It's about time it is known that Harvard turns out enlightened men as well as Democrats...
...bitten campaigner, has been frightened out of his dimmish wits by a directive. To hold his rank, he must pass a college test; to pass the test, he is bribing the post education officer with every last field jacket and wall locker in his supply room. Peter Fonda, an egghead private who goes psycho at the sight of an unsheathed bayonet, offers to tutor McGavin, and soon he is running a class for every Neanderthal man on the post...
...Author Barzun's own wares in the sweetshop include paperback editions of five of his books. He is also a director (along with Fellow Intellectuals Lionel Trilling and W. H. Auden) of the Mid-Century Book Society, a kind of egghead's book-of-the-month club...
...political power tools that he can command, Larry O'Brien's greatest strength lies in his personal relationships with the members of Congress. He can talk their language. Like them, he is a political pro. He has the pro's disdain for windmill-tilting amateurs. "The eggheads," he says, "want the candidate to win on his own terms, to defy the party and interest groups. The egghead thinks it's worthwhile to be defeated. I think it's worthwhile to be elected." This same pragmatic professionalism sets O'Brien apart from many...
...idea. In his keynote speech, the association's outgoing president, Whitney North Seymour, said flatly: "Most of us realize that anything like a durable peace will require increased reliance on international law and institu tions to apply it. Our Committee on World Peace Through Law is no egghead concept, no public relations invention. It presses toward a basic goal always close to the hearts of all those who see increased respect for the reliance on law as the only sure way to a peaceful world...