Word: eggheads
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Hart had been the campaign's cold, hopeless egghead; now he was confident and beaming. Hart had used Mondale's pile of endorsements to make the former Vice President look beholden and dull. Last week, however, when Hart was endorsed by disparate bigwigs-South Carolina Senator Ernest Rollings, former House Speaker Carl Albert, a trio of liberal Los Angeles Congressmen-Mondale could only joke about the irony...
...math course at B.U., and the first question on the final was; "How many holes are there on an 18-hole golf course?" says Read Oslin. Boston College's sports information director "None of it would be funny, but he gets up there and starts calling everyone an egghead, and with his delivery, he has everyone in hysterics...
Hofstadter's book rode a mainstream of the national experience. His words applied to the egghead-baiting and benign neglect of the '50s, but they were also prophetic for the drug culture of the '60s and the trivialized mysticism of the '70s. The Feminization of American Culture attempts to tap an underground current. It is that meandering flow of frustrations, veiled hostilities and confusions about power and innocence so common to the powerless...
...innocent ego trips by authors who want to retain title to a Huck Finn boyhood without forfeiting their college degrees, the genre may be enjoyed by nostalgic and overeducated readers on their own night off. Furthermore, the premise behind these books is admirable: Why should the jock and the egghead be cultural schizophrenics? Alas, the question remains unanswered by those who now raise it. As ex-Puritans, Michener, Novak and their literary teammates are simply trying too hard to get body and soul together...
...when his father first ran against Eisenhower for president, young Adlai was between his undergraduate and law school days at Harvard. During those years, Daley never cared much for the late Governor Stevenson and many of the Mayor's lackeys adhered to the current "Adlai the Egghead" sentiment. After losing twice to Eisenhower, the Mayor thought Adlai II had had enough and in 1960 he dumped him in favor of John Kennedy--quite an embarrassment to say the least...