Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lamont, as operated under its current policies, is not sufficient to meet undergraduate needs. During Reading and Examination periods especially, seats are difficult to locate and books even more difficult to obtain, mostly due to the inadequate reserve book system...
...craft of "Lamontmanship" arises precisely from this inadequacy. At nine in the morning, a practitioner of the craft arises, renews the book he checked out the evening before, hides it somewhere in the stacks or on a desk during the day, and returns briefly in the evening to do the reading. As a result, book turn-over in Lamont is reduced far below optimum levels. By 10 in the morning, all copies of a certain reserve book may be circulating in the library, although none of them...
...paused for a bite of chicken fried rice. "When I lost the game," he continued, "the whole pattern came clear. The whole dull routine, class to class, book to book, learn a few facts and bull your way through an exam which doesn't make sense anyway. I decided to give it up for awhile, to stay in bed and read some books carefully and listen to some records...
...with a letter of encouragement. Gradually, Gene began to vary his diet, and at the end of a week, was familiar with Chinese, Armenian, French, and Greek food. He read The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas, U.S.A., all of Marlowe's plays, Jane Eyre, To the Lighthouse, and a book by Erich Fromm. He was vastly impressed by Gertrude Stein's fear, at the age of fifteen, that soon she would have no more books to read...
...best section of the book consists of a dozen of the Boz sketches, where Dickens roves through the gin shops, the courts, the dawn-lit and night-curtained alleys of London with the gusto of a tourist and the unsentimental eye of a bobby covering his beat. But the rest of Charles Dickens' Best Stories is no match for the memory of Lionel Barrymore playing Scrooge...