Word: eggheadism
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...those who advocate hard-boiled treatment of repeat offenders, Butner's showcase experiment must seem like the scheme of a coddling egghead. Which is close to the mark. Mindful of the general dissatisfaction with the U.S. penal system and what it was achieving, Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Norman Carlson decided in 1972 that Butner, then in the planning stage, would be designed for new rehabilitation techniques. After bitter criticism scuttled early ideas of using transactional analysis and behavior modification, Carlson turned to the theories of Norval Morris, 52, a New Zealand-born criminal-law professor (and now dean...
...playing field, the egghead jock can be a source of enlightenment as well as amusement to teammates. Several years ago, when Atlanta Braves Second Baseman Dave Johnson, a mathematician, was playing for the Baltimore Orioles, he gave some valuable advice to Pitcher Jim Palmer. "Jim, you're in an unfavorable chance deviation," said Johnson. When Palmer seemed mystified, Johnson explained that Palmer was minimizing his chance to pitch strikes by trying to hit the corners...
Counting Bugs. The double life of the egghead jock can cause plenty of problems. Medich is taking seven years to complete a four-year medical course. When Dryden was both law student and Canadien goalie, he spent one frantic day taking two long exams, then racing to the Montreal Forum to play in a game. Earlie Thomas has a different difficulty: completing his research in the off-season while staying in condition. "I really get into my research," he says. "I spend as much as 14 hours a day in the field, usually on my hands and knees counting bugs...
...early fifties, while Monroe was rising through the ranks of hungry starlets to become the most popular blonde in the history of films--her rise included marriages to the two symbolic princes of midcentury America: Joe DiMaggio, the province of Muscle, and Arthur Miller, the state of Egghead,--Mailer had himself attacked Hollywood, largely on the strength of his first novel, and having failed as a scriptwriter, wrote a good, serious second echelon novel about Hollywood. While no Day of the Locust nor a Last Tycoon, Mailer's Deer Park was grudgingly accorded its own stubborn virtues a decade after...
...persuade me to take it. As I suck in the gas, cooler than the air in the living room. I feel giddy but not dizzy, and I laugh a little. It feels like the moment before I passed out in the grass during recess in fourth grade, When Egghead sat on my back and I breathed in and out hard forty times as hard as I could. I think about explaining how it feels, but figure it's too involved for people I don't really know yet. By now, everyone has a balloon...