Word: eggheadism
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...ghost of a chance in November, you are to be commended for your fine article, "The Other Adlai." It's high time you demonstrated a kindlier attitude towards Adlai because, incredible as it may seem, there are quite a few of us that really love that "egghead...
...disappointed in TIME, Aug. 20 for the low blow it dealt Adlai Stevenson in publishing the foolish picture of the ex-Mrs. Stevenson and printing her even more foolish remarks [concerning The Egghead and /]. Shame on you. And I'm a Republican and expect to vote for Eisenhower...
Conversation (Thurs. 9 :30 p.m., NBC). The Egghead and I, discussed by Jacques Barzun, Max Lerner, Clifton Fadiman...
What does it mean to be an intellectual in the U.S.? Is he really in such an unhappy plight as he sometimes thinks-the ridiculed double-dome, the egghead, the wild-eyed, absent-minded man who is made to feel an alien in his own country...
...Suaviter in Modo, Fortiter in Re, and the translation, "Gently in Manner, Strongly in Deed."* When someone mentioned the motto, which has been on the President's desk for more than a year, he cracked: "Maybe I'd better hide that; that proves I'm an egghead...