Word: eggheads
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...mock hero of The Man Without Qualities is a thirtyish intellectual named Ulrich. an egghead so tired that he is little more than a spiritual shell. Echoing his nihilism is a chorus of earnest buffoons: a Prussian millionaire who yearns to be an ethical superman, a general who is a kind of military Mortimer J. Adler and wants to classify all the world's great ideas, a beautiful but muddled matron who thinks the quickest trip to heaven is on a cultural broomstick. Author Musil perches them all on the lip of a volcano-the years 1913 and early...
...group is not indulging in some new egghead fad. Host Arthur Meier Schlesinger has always been a L'il Abner fan. Mrs. Schlesinger delights in telling of the encounter her husband once had with a flesh and blood representative of the comic strip...
Asked at a news conference in Trenton, NJ. what the term "egghead" means to him, Adlai Stevenson quickly replied: "I don't know the origin. I would only have this to say: 'Eggheads of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks!' " Later, in North Carolina, where he went to visit his sister, Mrs. Ernest Ives, and play golf, Stevenson developed a sudden back pain, was whisked off to a hospital, where doctors decided he has nothing to lose but a kidney stone...
...native princess (Suzan Ball). Eventually, Jeff gets fed up with his babes in the woods, and goes to bed with a bottle of whisky. "Sleep," he murmurs, "that's the stuff that knits the raveled sleave of care." But one session with Bartlett does not make an egghead, and next day Jeff is right back in the workaday world, braving the poison darts that come whistling through the Temple of the Rain Gods. All in all, the picture goes a long way toward explaining the nervous market...
...that old egghead T. Jefferson had been possessed of her spirit, he would never have suggested to the frightened appeasers who adopted our Declaration of Independence that they include in it those weasel words: "With a decent regard for the opinions of mankind...