Word: janitoring
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...checkout desk the library was completely dark and quiet; he could hear his heels clicking against the cold floor. Axel said he was scared but couldn't bring himself to call for help. "It was 21 years of conditioning versus my fears for survival." The fears won. An elderly janitor found Axel and let him out. Now the student still describes Widener as a "palace," but one that is filled with recognizable people...
...janitor's eyes are open so the student porter takes the keys off his desk and heads for B-entry...
...says that in the old days the professors were more democratic--they would talk to anyone. "The younger ones now don't have an aristocratic arrogance, but they don't feel that they can talk to a janitor," he says. His friends in the lower level jobs have complained about this to him, but he doesn't get snubbed very often. "As a photographer you're nowhere on the social scale," he says, "you're off to the side--you're not challenging anybody...
...some delectable objects in the Whitney. The most splendid "unofficial" sculpture is a veritable New Jerusalem of junk and old furniture sheathed in gold and silver foil, the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly, begun in 1950 in a Washington garage by a black janitor named James Hampton, and left unfinished on his death in 1964. It was meant for Christ at his Second Coming and may well be the finest work of visionary religious art produced by an American...
...caused a scandal once when she was served a cup of tea onstage during rehearsal; tea and coffee are forbidden the Mormons. So are alcoholic beverages. Pianist Jose Iturbi narrowly avoided greater disaster when a bottle of Scotch broke on the floor of his Tabernacle dressing room. A kindly janitor cleaned it up, and kept his mouth shut...