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...soon as they arrived, changed the composition of university faculties (largely from patrician to Jewish), and who also changed the composition of government. Until F.D.R.'s New Deal, the country had never associated the contemplative life with governmental action. Now there was a Brain Trust; being an "egghead" was useful, admirable, even sexy. One saw that it was possible to outthink the enemy. Einstein wrote a letter to Roosevelt urging the making of a uranium bomb, and soon a coterie of can-do intellectuals convened at Los Alamos to become the new cowboys of war machinery. Presidents have relied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age Of Einstein | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...would appear that Bradley, a brilliant Midwestern intellectual, is the tall man's Adlai Stevenson. Bradley even has Stevenson's famous "egghead." MARGARET JANE KEPHART Boulder, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1999 | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Cellist Jennifer Lee'01, who deferred admission for a year to study ata conservatory in Germany, found the "depth of themusic world of Europe unbelievable." Yet shereturned to Harvard because she felt that sheneeded "something more, "even if it meant leavingher professor thinking that she "came here tobecome an egghead...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Is There Any Glory in Avoiding the Conservatory? Yo-Yo Ma '76 Did It, and You Can Too | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

Resting in this particular carton of eggheadsare a lacrosse player, concentrators in physicsand comparative religion, future I-bankers andclinical psychologists. At one point during theiryears at Harvard, Ma, Lynn Chang '75 and JamesBuswell '70 may have been eggheads as well, butbeing an egghead has its benefits. Chances are, ata conservatory, musicians like McHenry would notfind that their friends are delighted for themwhen they're bouncing off the walls after a reallygood lesson. Nor would one find a duo of pianistslike Andrew Park '01 and Woo, who "sit there andjust laugh." Park knows the answer to the Harvardquestion, too, as everyone...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Is There Any Glory in Avoiding the Conservatory? Yo-Yo Ma '76 Did It, and You Can Too | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...egghead, sing 'fair Harvard...

Author: By William E. Rehling, | Title: Homer-palooza...from a Harvard perspective | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

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