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Presbyopia Solemnizations. Midcult authors, writes Macdonald, exploit the discoveries of avant-garde authors. Thus, their works have an apparent profundity when they are only pretentious. Macdonald's favorite Midcult writers include Pearl Buck, John Steinbeck, JP. Marquand, Archibald MacLeish, and even Ernest Hemingway, or at least much of his writing. His prize examples of Midcult are James Gould Cozzens' novel By Love Possessed, with its convoluted prose and jawbreaking Latinisms like "solemnization" and "presbyopic," and Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with its fuzzy philosophizing: "There's something way down deep that's eternal about every...
...England has sent us Mr. R.A. Skelton to set things aright. He has grey hair and smiling eyes, of course, but what is more important, he is curator of maps for the British Museum and a visiting consultant charged by Paul Buck with the task of drawing up proposals for the classification, cataloguing and housing of Harvard's maps and for the procurement of new maps on a more extended scale. Since the last (and the first) Harvard map catalogue was issued in 1831 the work involved is considerable...
...improvement of deteriorating circulation services has attracted much of the Harvard library administration's attention during the past academic year, according to the annual report made recently by Paul H. Buck, director of the University Library...
Reforms have been limited by Buck's desire to keep the library's research collection, especially the stacks in Widener, "in a classified arrangement of shelves open to scholars." Although stack passes are required for the central collection, the report contrasts Widener to most other research libraries, which allow direct access only to their staffs...
...exceedingly valuable property," Buck added. "Almost like a lot on 42nd St. and fifth Ave. in New York." One problem, however, is that Widener during construction will be as noisy as a New York subway...