Word: eggheadism
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...Senate, spare, able Clifford P. Case, 56, has shown himself one of the most independent of Republican liberals. The scholarly son of a Dutch Reformed minister, Case is no gladhander, tends to neglect his political fences, and has repeatedly driven conservative New Jersey Republicans into open revolt by his egghead policies. Case's re-election reinforces his shaky position as his state's top Republican leader...
...State. His Secretary of State will be an adviser and an administrator of John Kennedy's foreign policy." Republicans would be invited to participate in the area of national security ("It is not just a Democratic concern"), but, on balance. Kennedy's Washington would be partisan, egghead and dominated by one man: President Kennedy...
...party, is fighting a lonely battle against labels. "This is an age when we like to classify people under one heading or another," he says. Just as union politicians oppose him because he is a "Republican," so do some businessmen disown him as a "liberal," a "professor." an "egghead." His rebuttal: "I don't consider myself either a liberal or a conservative. I am a responsible Republican...
...Jersey. The voters have a choice between two able, liberal intellectuals, the Republican incumbent, Clifford Case, and Democratic Kingmaker Thorn Lord (full name: Balfour Bowen Thorn Lord). A big-time lawyer, Lord works in Trenton, lords it over a claque of intellectuals at home in Princeton. No mere egghead, he is a shrewd politician who rebuilt the Democratic Party statewide after the collapse of Jersey City's Boss Hague, was one of the earliest advocates of all-out registration drives. After Lord masterminded Bob Meyner's rise to the governor's mansion, the awed northern Jersey bosses...
This "Herblock of the Bistros" is no successor to such satirists as Fred Allen, Sid Caesar, W. C. Fields or Will Rogers. "Back to the Borscht Belt" with Sahl and his egghead liberal left pseudo-comedy, actually witty political propaganda vended by a wiseacre...