Word: bookworms
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...split up. My mother was sick too and since we were a nice family, in most ways, we immediately found foster parents for the six kids. I lived in a lower middle class Italian-American family, very nice people. Three years preceding this I had become sort of a bookworm. So I get to this family and they expected me, since I was eldest, to lead the house and to be energetic. I was 13, just about 14. They expected more independence from me and I sorta developed it. But I still stayed a bookworm and eventually I went...
Laurence has other troubles. Mother, a hard-bitten success herself, is about to lose her 56-year-old lover to a 19-year-old girl. Father, a charming bookworm with a sense of history, seems like the only decent refuge, the one who places truth and integrity above success and money. Even Laurence's once sweet adultery now seems merely "functionalism." Small wonder that she is heading toward a crackup...
...monorail, he meets a girl (Julie Christie) who looks like his wife but has something more exciting on her mind. "Have you ever read the books you burn?" she asks him slyly. He hasn't, but the idea really grabs him. Overnight, the firebug is transformed into a bookworm. Horrified, the hero's wife betrays him to the thought police; but before they can close in, he runs off to join a literary maquis composed of men and women who spend their lives strolling through a birch forest and memorizing books against the day when freedom is reborn...
...LUCY SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Lucy advertises for "quiet, dignified companion" and a librarian (Carol Burnett) answers, in the first of a two-parter. When Carol arrives, she turns out to be anything but a mousy bookworm, and her real high-living, high-decibel self is exposed...
...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...