Word: bookworm
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...Heaven Can Wait gives the film some of its glow. It is easy to imagine Beatty spending his boyhood watching double features at the neighborhood movie palace. That was not the case. Growing up in Richmond and later Arlington, Va., Beatty (then spelled with one t) was a bookworm. His father, a high school principal, taught him to read at the age of four. He had a formidable sister, Shirley MacLaine (MacLean is Mrs. Beaty's maiden name). Three years older than Warren, she was the tomboy. Today she feels that both children were greatly influenced by the powerful personalities...
Another inspiring home for the bookworm is Harvard Bookstore on Mass Ave. There are actually two stores called Harvard Bookstore--one on the corner by Plympton St. and another, two stores up, which sells cheap copies of out-of-print books--generally good for such bargains as The New York Times Most Famous Front Page Collection, for $1.98, the $25 Baseball Encyclopedia for $8.98, and other cut-rate goodies. Meanwhile, the Harvard Bookstore (corner variety) has a marvelous display case of newly-released first editions, so you can spend your summer popping in and out, looking to see what...
...Georgia last week. Earlier, to get more insight into the man whose role he was playing, Winfield had sought the advice of Martin Luther King Sr. Recalls Winfield wryly: "Daddy said to me, 'There was only one Martin.' End of conversation." · Washington's best-known bookworm has stacks of new reading for the supper table. First Child Amy Carter, 9, is taking a special four-day-a-week "enrichment program" at George Washington University's reading center this summer. Amy, who starts the fifth grade in September, and a dozen or so other fourth-through...
...That bookworm Amy Carter was at it again. For the second week in a row, the First Child, decked out in her best long party dress, turned up as her parents' guest at a state dinner with something to read while she ate. At last week's party for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, she pored over The Story of the Gettysburg Address and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Her dinner partner, Senator Edmund Muskie, gently interrupted her reading to coax her to eat her spinach timbale. Later, with a flourish, Amy gave Muskie a souvenir...
Richard Adlington, in his 1950 work "Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry," finds the key to Lawrence's desert escapades in narrow psychologism resembling this: Lawrence was illegitimate and dominated by a moralistic mother, and grew up a virginal bookworm lost somewhere in his studies of the Middle Ages. His rush into the Arab nationalist uprising in the 1910s was a subconscious effort to let loose his sexual-aggressive tendencies. But the consequences of this move for the innocent Lawrence were traumatic. He underwent a rude sexual awakening when a Turk captured and sodomized him at the height...