Word: bookishly
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TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face wherein a glamour photog (Fred) turns a bookish square (Audrey) into a top model; in Paris; with music...
Well brought up, disastrously beautiful, Darling grows bored with marriage to a "desperately immature" nobody, latches onto a bookish TV commentator (Dirk Bogarde) who deserts his wife and family to go live with her. He also introduces her to Important People. "Here was one of the great writers of the century, and there I was . . . suddenly, one felt madly in," she confides to the sound-track interviewer, revealing less in words than in her subtly interchangeable accents, which range from grande-dame to guttersnipe...
...time worrying about their philosophical principles or historical lineage. Yet at some future point, when the activism of the movement has either died or been turned over to younger people, the elders will begin to think about their position. Then perhaps Walter will notice what some of the more bookish radicals have undoubtedly noticed already: the incredible parallels between the current radical situation and the experience of Jean-Paul Sartre...
Mass revolt is no recent institution at Harvard. To manifest their response to spring, however, four students, of apparently bookish nature, did introduce a wholly different breed of insurgency: ingenuity and individuality became the tenor of the Dark Suit Rebellion that rocked Harvard College in the previous century...
...current exhibit at the Ward Nasse Gallery (118 Newbury St.) should be of interest to the Harvard community, for it shows the recent drawings of Albert Alcalay, instructor in Drawing at the Carpenter Center. The story of this artist's success seems almost story-bookish. Imprisoned in 1941 for being a Yugoslavian Jew, he talked his way out of one concentration camp by persuading a Nazi colonel that his artistic future should not be destroyed. Recapture, in another camp, he used his abilities to forge false documents and again he escaped. After the liberation, he made his way to Rome...