Word: bookishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks ago he sailed unostentatiously from the U. S. to attend the Madras conference, leaving behind him in the Philosophers' Book Shop, Manhattan, one Captain R. L. Jones, full of faith. To a reporter of the New York Herald Tribune, the bookish Captain hinted that the reincarnation of Christ in Mr. Krishnamurti would occur quite soon, he being now 30 years of age?again reminiscent. And this information the Herald Tribune reporter expansively divulged to the public...
CRUEL FELLOWSHIP-Cyril Hume- Doran ($2.50). Claude Fisher was a lonely, weak, little boy. Caught in a mutual investigation party with a tough little girl, he was told he was nasty, believed it. He had pimples and no friends-only bookish dreams of exquisite accessible females. These disgraced him at college, spoiled him for the devotion of calf-like Lucy. He fell back on sickly cynicism and the friendship of a fellow book salesman. But the salesman was called "The Violet." Revolted, Claude took up with a fox-terrier. A motor truck ended that affair, much as Author Hume ends...
When asked about the value of a college education in politics, Mr. Whiting was loud in its praises. "Outside of the mere bookish information which you acquire, college gives one a broader outlook on life and one's fellow men, and that after all is one of the greatest qualities a politician can have. In fact, all but seven presidents of the United States have been college graduates...
SPRING CLEANING ? Artificial but sprightly comedy of the novelist-husband who tried to reform his wife after his own bookish methods...
...stages of education students are urged not to lose sight of the real. Whether in a drawing, in mathematics, in history, always the same desire to make knowledge of practical utility. All that is purely bookish is condemned, and all that is based on observation is lauded. Thus is developed little by little the idea that in all mental work the facts are the essential thing, that without them the thought is of no consequence. A great truth in itself, but one which leads by a treacherous descent to the error of supposing that the facts are more important than...