Word: eggheaded
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What manner of being is an egghead? Do you mean a sort of Martini-sipping Guru of beer-guzzling disciples? Or just anyone in whom intellect surpasseth understanding? . . . Perhaps . . . your readers can give us a clarifying definition of this intriguing word coinage ... So many of TIME'S readers in your Letters column acknowledge being eggheads, we should certainly be able to pin this thing down...
Perhaps this will help in the egghead discussion: 1) an intellectual is a person who is well-informed and intelligent; 2) a liberal intellectual is an intellectual who espouses liberal political programs; 3) an egghead is a person (possibly intellectual) who for profit, publicity or in the search of power espouses liberal political programs...
...heartily share your joy over the election results. It was made even more gratifying because of the failure of the egghead rebellion-especially those Hollywoodians who didn't have the fortitude to deny Communist affiliation...
Although the shape of my own cranium is regrettably average and inconspicuous, I object strongly to your repeated derogatory use of the term, egghead...
...pass the next test, in which the goal was 266 electoral votes. His campaign survived the Nixon crisis-stirred up partly out of hatred for the man who broke the Alger Hiss case-and turned an apparent setback into an advantage. It survived the egghead rebellion, the desertion of Ike by scores of intellectuals, journalists, Hollywoodians and other opinion makers...