Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Just having books is no good if you can't use them," says Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Yen-Tsai Feng, who oversees Widener Library's more than three million books. Widener keeps more than 150,000 of its volumes in the depositories...
...according to Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, who oversees Harvard's library system, "a very strong argument could be made as to why it would be good to have an additional library in that corner of the Yard--[the location of the Gulf site...
...Verba agrees, saying, "it certainly is not as good if the material is not at your fingertips in a library that you can browse through the way you can in Widener...
...Good old Welton: blue blazers, compulsory chapel, imitation Gothic architecture. A headmaster (Norman Lloyd) with a mellifluous voice and a pinched spirit. A student body harboring a minority of disaffected spirits awaiting rebellious mobilization. And over in the English department, a passionate eccentric, John Keating -- played by Robin Williams -- who is just the man to stir the lads...
...picture does. Encouraged by his mentor, Leonard's character defies parental and school authority to reach out for his dream (he wants to be an actor, not the doctor his father insists he must become) and finds that it is beyond his emotional grasp. Though director Weir, who is good at unspoken menace (Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave), has created a subtly dark and claustrophobic atmosphere, the final tragedy is nonetheless somewhat implausible...