Word: bookishly
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...army of 4 million at his disposal, and has demonstrated his willingness to use it to crush civil disobedience in the Soviet Union's restive Transcaucasian republics. By contrast, Vytautas Landsbergis, the newly elected President of the tiny Baltic state of Lithuania (pop. 3.7 million), is a bookish, bespectacled musicologist who never before held political office. He presides over a breakaway government that has few laws, no army, no currency, no foreign recognition and a tenuous hold on its territory...
...because I have an attitude or want an attitude. I am sick of bookish, insecure classmates accusing me and my teammates of arrogance for wearing crew gear, talking about crew and being friends with other crew members. I wear it because I am proud of it, talk it because I like it, and choose my friends for the same reasons everyone else does. So enough with the complaints of these thinly-disguised wanna-bes. Either join up or shut...
...effort to respond to the changing character of a house once known for its "bookish types," sophomores Clark Petschek and Wayne K. Yang are asking the Lowell House Music Society (LHMS) to hire a rock band to entertain at this year's spring formal...
Neighbors said the slight, bookish-looking man with curly brown hair had been wandering the streets of Los Angeles' prosperous Fairfax district for hours. He stopped residents, pulled a picture of a young woman out of a large manila envelope, and asked if they had seen her around. Eventually he learned her address. On Tuesday morning last week, say police, he waited outside her apartment for nearly four hours. Finally he apparently rang her bell. When she answered the door, he allegedly shot her dead...
Ultimately, the sense of conditional freedom illuminates all his best work, which is to say nearly everything in this book. Oddly enough, given his Oxford education and bookish life, Larkin was one of the century's greatest pastoral poets. "At Grass" (about retired racehorses) and "First Sight" (about winter-born lambs) are hymns to the inexorable rhythms of the seasons, to which each human, unfortunately, has only a short-term invitation. "Church Going" deals with a man-made structure. A wayward cyclist stops out of curiosity and enters an empty house of worship: "Once I am sure there's nothing...