Word: bookworm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bookworm Turns...
...ultimate purpose of reading for points should be to tranquilize the non-reader's guilt and restore his self-confidence. One sure sign that the non-bookworm has turned and is reading for pleasure instead of improvement comes when he switches from hardbacks to paperbacks. It is almost an article of faith nowadays that paperbacks are for reading, hard-covers for coffee tables. Though the big-book syndrome lingers on among some bona-fide readers, notably Ivy League freshmen returning on home visits to the cultural outback, any volume big enough to be spotted three lounge chairs away immediately...
...bean-pole six-footer at 15, Lyndon played forward on the basketball team, pitched and played first base for the town baseball team, took studies casually. "I wouldn't say I overapplied myself at all," says Johnson. "I liked to play and enjoy myself." No bookworm, he shunned fiction-and still does. Whenever his mother gave him something to read, he would ask: "But Ma, is it real...
...Regrets. Alan Lubliner, who had been an introverted bookworm with straight-A grades through junior high suddenly blossomed into an articulate leader in Denver's George Washington High. He became editor of the school newspaper, president of the Denver "Youth for Kennedy" organization, and class valedictorian-but his grades slipped just a shade. As a result, Harvard and Cornell passed Alan over "I don't understand it," complained Alan's father, a hard-driving businessman...
...such case involved a Denver student who underwent a metamorphosis junior high and high school. According to Time, he "suddenly blossomed a straight-A introverted bookworm articulate leader:" editor of the paper, president of the city's "Youth Kennedy" organization, and class vale-. "But," the article continues, slipped just a shade. As a Harvard passed him over...