1. He’s a rav as well. That comes first in my book.
2. I’ve been in a yeshiva environment, and am proficient in Yiddish, but i have never heard that word used. I assumed it was demeaning, my bad. And about the beards, where I’m from a lot of kollel yungeleit and even some guys in 2nd year beis midrash have beards.
3. “3. For the record, here is his Wikipedia bio. I’ll let the audience judge you.”
Cool down your rhetoric. I’m not a chassid of Chaim Solovetchik- I think he wrote one really great, seminal article on frumkeit. That doesn’t mean I’ve read his other work or even think learning history is worthwhile. You’ve made quite a few assumptions.
4. I haven’t. I don’t need to, this article is just very famous in certain circles I occasionally float in. I never said you had to talk about him in “hushed tones” (assumption alert), just not to demean the work, which I now realize was a misunderstanding based on vernacular.