Word: eggheads
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...Egghead (by Molly Kazan) is a contemporary play about a not-very-contemporary-minded professor. Hank Parson is full of high-minded intolerances, grants his seemingly dumb wife the freedom of thought to agree with him, chants ancient war cries while ignoring current wars. Then the FBI comes investigating a favorite former student of his, a brilliant Negro. Certain that the student is not a Communist and equally certain why he is being smeared as one, Parson rushes to his defense and brings him to the college to speak. All too soon, by way of his wife's sleuthing...
...ended last week the four-month mental marathon that had accomplished the transformation of an egghead into a TV darling (TIME, Feb. 11 et seq.). By failing to name Belgium's King Baudouin, Van Doren lost the game on NBC's Twenty One to Mrs. Vivienne Nearing, a blonde barrister who had tied him for two weeks running. The loss shaved Van Doren's take from $143,000 to $129,000, still the largest prize ever awarded on any single program. Income taxes will slice this sum plus the annual $4,500 he gets as an English...
...your great weight to glamorizing intelligence and memory (Van Doren) should earn you new praises. Look what glamorizing did for sex, athletics and big business. Let us hope it can do the same for mental powers. A great many teachers and "students" are probably adding their thanks to the egghead...
...first to nominate Charles Van Doren as the "Man of the Year." And in the even far more distant future, I would nominate this particular egghead as the 1960 replacement for Adlai Stevenson (if he were 35 by then). By way of politics, which camp claims Charlie Van Doren...
...instructor who inherits the brilliance of the literary Van Doren clan, also enjoys a stranger triumph. Just by being himself, he has enabled a giveaway show, the crassest of lowbrow entertainments, to whip up a doting mass audience for a new kind of TV idol-of all things, an egghead...