Both Uses of
savant
in
Franny and Zooey
- In general, listeners were divided into two, curiously restive camps: those who held that the Glasses were a bunch of insufferably "superior" little bastards that should have been drowned or gassed at birth, and those who held that they were bona-fide underage wits and savants, of an uncommon, if unenviable, order.†
Chpt 2.1
- We knew there's no keeping a born scholar ignorant, and at heart, I think, we didn't really want to, but we were nervous, even frightened, at the statistics on child pedants and academic weisenheimers who grow up into faculty-recreation-room savants.†
Chpt 2.1 *
Definition:
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(savant) someone recognized as spectacularly knowledgeable or skilled in a particular field