Louis Bromfield, a popular novelist of right-wing political persuasion, suggested that the word might some day find its way into dictionaries as follows: Egghead: A person of spurious intellectual pretensions, often a professor or the protege of a professor. Fundamentally superficial. Over-emotional and feminine in reactions to any problem. Super cilious and surfeited with conceit and contempt for the experi ence of more sound and able men. Essentially confused in thought and immersed in mixture of sentimentality and violent evange lism. A doctrinaire supporter of Middle-European socialism as opposed to Greco-French-American ideas of democracy and liber alism. Subject to the old-fashioned philosophical morality of Nietzs foe which frequently leads him into jail or disgrace. A self-conscious prig, so given to examining all sides of a question that he becomes thoroughly addled while remaining always in the same spot. An anemic bleeding heart.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:33:39 +0000
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