Word: bookishness
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Superman was modeled partly on Moses. The comic-book hero's creators, two bookish Jews from Cleveland named Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, drew their character's backstory from the superhero of the Torah. Just as baby Moses is floated down the Nile in a basket to escape annihilation, baby Superman is launched into space in a rocket ship to avoid extinction. Just as Moses is raised in an alien world before being summoned to liberate Israel, Superman is raised in an alien environment before being called to assist humanity...
...site. “I never would have expected to be in this book. It is a very exciting project, an ambitious project and a vital one,” Baranay said. The Coop recently hosted the Harvard Square Business Association’s annual “Bookish Ball,” which included a giant cake featuring a picture of the book’s cover. Contributors and fans attended a launch party at Club Passim on Tuesday evening. The Harvard Book Store plans to host another event focusing on the book in December. Lotman does not have...
...fitting that as I was writing my previous book, an historical novel called Heyday published in 2007, I turned 50. Once your life has lasted a full historical unit of time - half a century! - and assuming you've been paying reasonably close attention, "history" becomes less of a bookish abstraction about treaties and battles and bills and dates, and begins to acquire a more palpable reality. Around age 50, I started to feel, in ways I really hadn't when I was younger, as if I could see and feel the rhythms of history. The year of my birth...
...York Times best-seller list for 144 weeks, or nearly three years, and inspired parodies in both hard-core (The Da Vinci Load) and soft-core movies (The Da Vinci Coed). People picked it up and couldn't put it down, in part because it was a very bookish book: an elaborate web of church lore leading to the 2,000-year-old dish that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had been married and their God-woman offspring walked the earth today. To be faithful to the book, Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman had to lard the movie with giant extracts...
...That’s where study-abroad programs come in. Study-abroad programs provide precisely the practical applications and new environments a completely bookish education lacks; in terms of personal development, the gains are immeasurable. And, yet, Harvard’s record in this area is sadly lacking—an ironic fact given its supposed commitment to preparing students for a multicultural world. Now more than ever, Harvard must do more to publicize study-abroad options and remove academic hurdles in order to encourage more of its students to study overseas...