Word: bookishness
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...married Arlette Paraf, a niece of the great art dealer Georges Wildenstein, and no longer had to run with the pack. Just before World War II, Seligmann, a gentle, elegant, bookish man, emigrated to the U.S., where he and his wife lived on a roomy farm near Sugar Loaf, N.Y. He designed ballet costumes and scenery occasionally, painted steadily, and grew increasingly interested in black magic. He acquired a 300-volume library of occult literature. He even wrote an extensive survey of wizardry, Mirror of Magic, and admitted that his paintings were often a reflection of it. "I have interpreted...
...McCormack served ten years on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, was Democratic floor leader for 17 years before succeeding Rayburn as Speaker in 1962. Although his name is associated with few major bills, his influence has been vast in the legislative field. McCormack is not a bookish man; his curiosity has seldom fastened on subjects outside his own political sphere. His skills are great as a behind-the-scenes negotiator, but House critics, mostly Northern and Western liberal Democrats, insist that he is too willing to compromise on basic principles. McCormack denies the charge, argues that...
...beautiful but bookish adaptation of Francois Mauriac's 1927 novel owes a lot to the pellucid performance of Emmanuèle Riva (star of Hiroshima, Mon Amour) as a bored young provincial wife who tries to do away with her husband...
Bernard survives, however. He even lies to save her, and as Thérèse rides home from court to try to tell him why she did it, her unhappy history is reviewed in flashbacks. Here, the prose narrative becomes a burdensome, bookish device, but Director Georges Franju finds visual poetry in sharp contrasts between the gentle Bordeaux countryside and the taut, terrible stillness of Thérèse's face. Actress Riva never fails him. On her wedding day, "the wild force seething inside," she stands in church like someone paralyzed by news of disaster...
...pile of Italian Renaissance buildings huddled on a sweeping, 500-acre campus, Emory has 4,200 students, one-third of them women. Graduate students set the pace, and sports are played down, giving Emory a bookish sobriety. Last fall it beat down in the courts a Georgia law threatening its tax-exempt status if it integrated. This fall it expects to enroll half a dozen Negroes, including Hamilton Holmes, the University of Georgia's first male Negro graduate, who will become Emory's first Negro medical student...