Word: bookishness
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While Harvard students tend to steer clear of overtly racist remarks, it is not uncommon to hear jokes rich in perpetration of Asian-American stereotypes. These usually revolve around the notion that Asian students are bookish and nerdy, to the extent that they don’t enjoy or understand non-academic activities, especially sports. I should know these jokes, because I am definitely guilty of making them, and so are Asian students themselves...
...BOOKISH Inspired by the nearby New York Public Library, the 10 guest floors are each dedicated to a different area of knowledge GUESTS Most are from the advertising, publishing and fashion world. But Neil Armstrong once stayed in Room 500.006: Astronomy SPECIAL FEATURES Each room has a collection of books, but guests can also relax on the poetry terrace, which is decorated with a James Joyce scroll and volumes of verse by assorted others
...moment, at least, that future lies in America. Wladimir has been practicing his English as diligently as he has been training. His regimen includes studying a chart of verb conjugations in his promoter's office in Hamburg, where the brothers have lived since 1996. But for all his bookish credentials and his affable, almost shy demeanor, Klitschko is also quite the performer. Like his childhood idol Muhammad Ali - whose star-studded birthday party he attended in January - Klitschko revels in showmanship, appearing at fights wearing Soviet-red Hugo Boss shorts and a malevolent grin. Still, as much...
Harriet Cleve Dufresnes, the 12-year-old heroine of Donna Tartt's The Little Friend, is a bookish girl in small-town Mississippi in the early '70s. So was Tartt. Harriet has dark bobbed hair and an intense stare that unnerves other children and even grownups. Look at Tartt's photo, and compare for yourself. And--not unlike an author gestating a Gothic suspense novel--Harriet is patiently hatching a terrible and ominous plan...
...pronounced penchant for parties, cloistered ourselves in our rooms this spring preceding a number of senior year rights-of-passage: thesis deadlines, orals and general exams. All the things that make us fun and normal (like other college kids from Boston College and Boston University) are tempered with bookish propensities, obsessive-compulsive proclivities and stringy-haired, bespectacled, plump, nail-biting, acne-spotted predilections...