Word: archiviste
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...outset, Mundome's principal character seems to be one of those pretentiously arch, self-preoccupied creatures-remotely derived from Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, and strained through the literary strictures of French neorealism-who infest European fiction. His name is Richard. He is a library archivist in charge of, yes, "fugitive and ephemeral materials." He is also the kind of man who will say, "Things are sometimes what they seem." But before the reader can begin to snarl or groan this incipient literary hedgehog changes into a devoted brother. His pretty sister Meg has just come home after...
...staff turned up some glimpses of behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the President's men. Newman told them that he had appraised 828 boxes of the President's general correspondence files in November and early December 1969, with the help of Supervisory Archivist Mary Walton Livingston of the National Archives. On Dec. 24, according to the report, he was told by Nixon's tax attorney, Frank DeMarco, that "there was nothing more...
...elimination of this incentive has seriously cut the flow of historical documents. Yale University Archivist Herman Kahn complains: "People are sitting on their papers in the hope that the law will be changed." Except for those donated in a spirit of patriotism or altruism, it seems, many historical documents will remain stuffed in former officials' attics and scrapbooks until those papers can again earn a tax deduction-or until a new law declares that papers produced by officials serving the public belong to the public...
Assisting Priest and Archivist...
...Manhattan; its centerpiece is a set of 23 wash drawings for Piranesi's intended remodeling of San Giovanni in Laterano. These rare sketches cast a fresh light on the unique junction that Piranesi maintained between Baroque and Neoclassical architectural thought. But it is still Piranesi the fantast and archivist, the obsessed historian with a burin, who holds the eye today. His testament is some 2,000 elaborate prints of antiquities, buildings, real or imaginary, sculptures and details, which he published between 1748 and his death...