Word: archivist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tailor, Casaroli was born in the northern Italian town of Piacenza, attended Rome's quaintly named Academy for Ecclesiastical Nobles-actually, the Vatican's chief school for its future diplomats. Like Pope Paul VI, who is also a graduate of the academy, Casaroli served as an archivist in the Vatican's Secretariat of State. Eventually he became head of its department for Latin American affairs, and in 1961, Pope John named him Under Secretary for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, the job he still holds...
...sense, the manufacture of art is packaging the world. In the process, landscape, bric-a-brac and dreams may end up bundled together like tiny attics whose contents are reminiscent of the character of mankind. Joseph Cornell is just such an archivist, boxing trinkets that Huckleberry Finn might have put in his pockets, together with talismans as portentous as astronomical charts...
...archivist in East Berlin hurried off to tell his bosses. He had just unearthed a copy of Marlene Dietrich's long-missing birth certificate. Unable to keep the secret...
...rate of an additional file drawer each year for every employee. A home office, top-heavy with accounting-department records, may be cluttered with 35,000 file drawers that cost $50 a year apiece to maintain. To cut down this paper proliferation, a new kind of specialist - the corporate archivist-has turned up. Largest of these archivists is Manhattan's Leahy Archives, which maintains five storage centers throughout the U.S. and serves 400 blue-chip clients who gladly pay to have Leahy consign their unneeded records to the fire...
Professionally Unhappy. Although he reaps a tidy living from surplus record keeping, Washington-born onetime Federal Archivist Leahy is professionally unhappy about the trend to ever more paper work-and somewhat disdainful of the men who create it. "Great men build companies," he says, "and leave the paper shuffling to somebody else. Behind the front line, where the big companies seem to put all their talent, a lot of inefficient people are busy building up their own little empires with unnecessary paper work...