Word: eggheadism
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When informed of the Cerberean custodian of Harvard's ivory tower, renowned philosopher A. South Egghead exclaimed, "Capita inter nubila...
Your intellectuality (Joachim's egghead children) was far too scrambled for this eggnostic...
...Garbled nonsense . . . This Voegelin is just another egghead...
...term egghead was, if I gather rightly, originally intended to be a bit derogatory, indicating a capacity for and a preoccupation with mental activity of a particular kind, limited in its scope, and by no means resulting in an orderly process of thought capable of producing wise decision, nor of envisaging constructive and adequate planning for this nation's life, liberty and happiness. Alger Hiss is an egghead, Whittaker Chambers is an egghead, with a latent streak of common sense. There are all kinds of eggheads-neurotic, paranoiac, schizophrenic. There are also harmless and normal eggheads, including...
...electorate, however, was not looking for an egghead ... At work in its mind was what Barrett Wendell of Harvard described as "the awful sanity of the average...