Word: bookishness
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Weinberger's determination was honed early. A bookish San Francisco public- school student, he won a scholarship to Harvard. As president of the Crimson in his senior year, an honor he still mentions with pride, he wrote conservative-minded editorials that infuriated many of his New Deal colleagues. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1941, Weinberger enlisted in the Army and met his wife Jane, then a nurse, aboard the troopship that carried him to the Pacific theater in 1942. He saw action in New Guinea and ended the war as a captain on the staff of General Douglas...
This was giddy stuff for bookish human ists reared in the threatening shadow of Sinclair Lewis' small-minded America...
Justice Blackmun, 75, is a dogged worker who agonizes over ethical and moral issues in major cases. He is deceptively bland, a bookish man with an enormous capacity for work. He is at his desk by 7 a.m., eats breakfast with his clerks at 8, and does not leave until 8 at night When Blackmun first came on the court he was known as Burger's "Minnesota Twin," since he grew up with Burger in St Paul and seemed to follow the chiefs lead docilely. But after two years, Blackmun began to go his own, more liberal...
Kevin's own marriage only complicates the picture. Feeling the need to establish a better life. Kevin courts and marries Murt Quane's bookish sister Elizabeth. The decisiveness of this marriage and the impossibility of keeping both Maureen and his wife force Kevin to decide where and with whom he will live. At the same time he must protect himself against the machinations of Snoddy and the vengeance of an imagined God. The prevalence of sickness and death in those around him, while completely natural, convinces Kevin that God's wreaks His vengeance for his sin by making innocent people...
...most serious friendship apparently had been with Johnny ("Fat Man") Campo, Pleasant Colony's trainer since March. They were vivid proof that opposites attract. Campo, 43, is a bombastic, street-wise man who rose to prominence by turning cheap horses into winners. Runkle was a slight, shy, sweetly bookish young woman given to quoting Her mann Hesse and Antoine de Saint-Exup...