Word: bookishness
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Eliot seeks true love with Margaret, a bookish blithe spirit who captures his fancy by giving him a copy of the Goncourts' journals. After a two-year love affair, the pair decide that they are not made for each other, but after Margaret marries another man and has a child, they decide that they are. The steps Eliot takes to break up Margaret's marriage and marry her himself might have struck old Galsworthy as slightly caddish...
Early Habit. The youngest (he is now 56) and most bookish of the Eisenhower brothers, Milton had already acquired the habit of success. After graduating from Kansas State College with a B.S. in journalism, he served as a U.S. vice consul two years in Scotland, later became special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture under Calvin Coolidge. At 28 he was made the department's director of information. He stayed on even after Henry Wallace took over, rose through a succession of posts culminated by the associate directorship of OWI during the first years of World War II. Then...
...each man or woman to punch out a meaning to life in a meaningless world that none ever sought. A not uncommon game among Paris intellectuals consists in trying to answer the question: How did Simone get that way? Her Parisian parents were Roman Catholics, her father a bookish lawyer, her mother a reserved middle-class lady. Simone and her younger sister Hélène went to a good Catholic school, Cours Désir, where they studied hard and did well...
...Korea, were with the 1st Division. At the Inchon landing in Korea, he was in command of the 1st-and led it through some of its finest actions. He seems to be the very antithesis of the roistering, hell-for-leather marine of song and fable. Quiet, bookish, religious (Christian Scientist), he never raises his voice, is famous for writing earnest citations for his men and modestly evading praise of his own heroism...
Paestum Exhumed. The bookish approach scored a triumph at Paestum, 60 miles south of Naples, where Greek empire-builders established a colony in the early 6th century B.C. The city's long history and its conquest by Lucanians and Romans were well known from classical literature, and its walls and colonnades have impressed tourists for centuries, but not until 1951 was there a serious attempt to find what lay beneath the surface. Then Professor P. Claudio Sestieri and a gang of laborers set to work (TIME, Sept. 6). From tombs came vivid paintings on stone of household scenes...