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...requiring more efficient methods to help the researcher, also creates a huge need for more librarians. Library schools such as the one I graduated from in June will never be able to attract talented young college graduates unless the public and TIME stop propagating the image of tie fabled bun-wearing librarian and help us depict the new librarian...
...library that is most familiar to people is a hushed, well-stacked place, commanded-at least in fable-by a hushed, not-very-well-stacked spinster with her hair in a bun and ice in her eyes, and frequented by those who want to browse or drowse, study or doodle, read or simply exchange furtive notes with members of the opposite sex. There are still hundreds of such cozy havens all over the U.S., but they are turning into anachronisms. Their problem is that a technological age demands far more from a library than a quiet place to read...
Rings & Rubies. Helena Rubinstein's personal wealth was estimated at $100 million, but her enjoyment of it was erratic. Her dark-dyed hair gathered back into a familiar bun, her fingers dripping rings and ruby polish, she held business conferences in her 26-room Park Avenue triplex, propped up in a garish bed whose Incite head-and footboard glowed under fluorescent light. Yet she vastly appreciated art, and acquired an extensive collection that included Renoir, Renault, Modigliani and Dali. Her jewelry was valued at $1,000,000, but she liked to mix dime-store baubles with antique pieces that...
...sensuous, symmetrical turnings that a cabinet-maker's lathe could serve up. Finials, banderoles, and swags of fruit and flowers appeared, to give essentially stiff, straight-backed woodwork an animate touch. Table and chair legs ceased to butt into the floor, instead rested on gentler bun feet, but H-form stretchers low to the floor held the frames rigidly intact. Furniture of walnut and ebony supplanted oak because these woods take on a finer finish, and it was more likely that brocaded damsels rather than ironclad knights would plounce into...
...basso "m's" fading out, and "r's" rolling over shouting policemen and barking dogs, over the sounds of men being beaten, still singing of the ultimate "overcoming," over the weeping of a huge-bosomed Negro lady in a faded print dress, with hair tied up in a bun...