Word: eggheaded
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AFTER THE RAIN is an eggshell of a play from an egghead playwright. John Bowen borrows and embalms theatrical modes and ideas from Bertolt Brecht, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Peter Weiss and colors them in a fashionable shade of apocalypstick. As the tyrannical leader of a Noah-like band of survivors from the flood of 1969, Alec McCowen is convincingly diabolical as he plucks open the soul of a power maniac...
Wednesday, October 19 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The latest guest-villain is Vincent Price, who plays Egghead in "An Egg Grows in Gotham." Robin and friend scramble his fowl plans to take over the city...
...sake, what's this?" He was a man of rare humor, often expressed in self-deprecating terms. Responding to criticism that he was too intellectual, that he talked over the heads of the voters, he tossed out a Latinism: Via ovum cranium difficilis est (The way of the egghead is hard). He loved people and in his later years was one of New York's most inveterate partygoers; yet even when surrounded by admirers he somehow seemed lonely. He was a completely sophisticated citizen of the world; yet he was at home only on his Libertyville, Ill., farm...
...weeks and condescend forever after, White brought with him an open mind, sharp eyes and immense erudition. His journal, conscientiously pieced together between lecture engagements and airport departures, is largely a testament to the diversity of the U.S. Whether describing a loggerhead shrike in North Carolina or an egghead racist in New Orleans, wandering over Beverly Hills ("reminds you of the environs of Florence and Fiesole") or Washington, D.C. ("the chalk-white city half in love with Time"), White displayed even in this disjointed, unedited chronicle the wit and insight that made his novels classics in their author...
...announced that "anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. The intellectual is on the run in American society." In fact, the U.S. intellectual has never been persecuted in any real sense-not even during the chivying of the McCarthy era. Much of the primitive anti-egghead feeling was really based on envy (as one pro-McCarthy paper put it) of "certified gentlemen and scholars dripping with college degrees." The Russian launching of Sputnik made education and intellectualism newly desirable. The Kennedy Administration made it glamorous in a slightly Broadway-tinted way by creating a sort...