Word: bookishness
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...Washington last week, the Manchester Guardian's brilliant, bookish Max Freedman attended an Old Vic performance of Saint Joan at the National Theater and escorted an old friend-Jacqueline Kennedy. The week before, Freedman sat down in the White House for a chat with another old friend-John F. Kennedy. Rated by his peers as the best foreign correspondent covering the U.S. capital, Max Freedman boasts channels of communication that few of them can match. But even those on less familiar terms with the President and his wife share Freedman's conviction that Washington is the best news...
...Good as the Count's. The life of Samuel Henry Kress could have been written by Horatio Alger, except for the fact that Kress never married the boss's daughter. Born in Cherryville. Pa., in 1863, he grew up a bookish boy who at 17 landed a teaching job in Slatington, six miles away. Kress's salary was only $25 a month, but he managed to save up enough money to open a novelty store in Nanticoke. Before long, he had a wholesale house in Wilkes Barre. By the time he died in 1955, there were...
...most responsible for the experiment is Vice Premier Li Fu-chun, the 61-year-old chairman of Red China's State Planning Commission. Thin, grey-haired, bookish and self-effacing, Li Fu-chun has been in charge of "squeezing" the peasants during the three bitter years, beginning in 1958, of the Great Leap Forward, which was aimed at giving China an industrial base greater than that of Britain. From Li's neat office in Embracing Kindness Hall-a two-story Manchu dynasty palace in Peking's Forbidden City-have poured the blueprints and directives that marshaled China...
From 1789 to 1797, Madison served in the House of Representatives that he had helped set up, found time to marry a buxom widow named Dolley Todd, and, with honors enough for any bookish man, retired to Virginia to lead the life of a gentleman farmer. But when Thomas Jefferson became President in 1801, he summoned his good friend Madison to become his Secretary of State. And before Jefferson left the presidency in 1809, he successfully named Madison as his successor...
...world full of pain. But happiness and delight are a different sort of thing. They come to be through a fulfillment that reaches to the depths of our being - one that is an adjustment of our whole being with the conditions of existence -John Dewey) FELICITY, a more bookish or elevated word, may denote a higher, more lasting, or more perfect happiness (all the felicity which a marriage of true affection could bestow -Jane Austen) (Jeticity or continued happiness consists not in having prospered, but in the process of prospering -Frank Thilly) BEATITUDE refers in this sense to the highest...