Terrible song lyrics and silly jokes are as central to what he does as arcane bodies of knowledge, and there's little scorn or condescension in his use of less brainy material.
Mr. Chafets answers jokes by Jon Stewart and other comics about the "dumb blondes" of Fox News by reciting the university and career credentials of various beauty queens and runway models who work there, and writing that Megyn Kelly is "both blond and brainy, and she has made good use of her glamour-girl image".
In a brainy essay titled "The Uses of a 'Disease': Infertility as Rhetorical Vehicle," authors Margarete Sandelowski and Sheryl de Lacey write that "whereas barrenness used to connote a divine curse of biblical proportions and sterility an absolutely irreversible physical condition," infertility today "connotes a medically and socially liminal state".
After reading Jim Windolf's review of Simon Reynolds's "Rip It Up and Start Again" (March 5), I found myself wondering whether it's only books about pop music that leave authors exposed to charges of being "brainy" and using "99-cent locutions".
It applies the same brainy brand of self-consciousness that "Urinetown" used to send up agitprop drama.
Many of the brainy youngsters who used to flock to investment banks or hedge funds will put their talents to other, perhaps more productive, uses.Mr Bush of Athena Health thinks this is terrific.
Turing's mathematical genius first flowered at school, and then bloomed in the laid-back, brainy atmosphere of 1930s Cambridge.
Indeed, in the chic, brainy world of postwar avant-garde music, Xenakis was the odd man out.
First, he fell in love with Lyudmila, the frail, brainy daughter of a senior communist purged in the 1930s.
In theory, Dr Banner is on the team because of his brainy knowledge of gamma radiation.
