Word: eggheadism
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...powwow in Florida, Brower declared that a lack of "greatness" is holding up national progress. He told his competitors: "Advertising in a climate of greatness will work harder. Fewer people will be annoyed by advertising . . . It will cease to be the whipping boy for every uninformed meathead and misinformed egghead and unsuccessful sorehead...
...haven't the faintest idea what it is like here in Cambridge now. When was it that "co-education" started? It's been practically twenty years since I wrote "We Happy Few" and the whole picture of the world has changed. The 'egghead' is so on the defensive now that I wouldn't want to write another book like it. 'Far be it from me...' you know...
...York City premiere. The production had enlisted a somewhat disparate but unquestionably distinguished group of the biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived via the egghead circuit." But virtue was rewarded, for J.B. proved to be "a sort of theatrical thunderbolt that strikes about once in a decade," according to Newsweek, "... a burst of magnificent, enthralling theatre that kept a fascinated audience of first-nighters applauding long after the stage hands wanted to call...
...Combs launched, the anti-Chandler field got crowded by the gubernatorial announcement of Wilson Watkins Wyatt, 53, onetime Louisville mayor (1941-45), and personal campaign manager for Adlai Stevenson in 1952. Backed by the Stevenson-prone Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, Wyatt was too much of a city egghead to suit Clements' plans...
...politico-national sphere, horse-trading proceeded at a marey pace. Longtime Lucenemy Sen. Wayne Morse, Oregon egghead, failed in a gauche bid to mass ouster votes. Appointment won overwhelming approval in the Senate, world's poshest club...