Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Librarians already anticipate overcrowding. "From what I hear, there will never be enough of these things," says a reference librarian at Widener. The eight Widener terminals will eventually be supplemented by an additional 12 machines and moved to a permanent location in the area where the wooden card catalogs currently stand...
...thrillers, police procedurals and spy stories published in the U.S. each year. Characters are frequently sketchy, plots more elaborate than coherent, dialogue archly unnatural, and exotic settings tacked on rather than integral to the narrative. Many authors seem to think that a new gimmick -- a detective who is a librarian or social worker, one who works in the Berkshires or the Depression-era Dakotas -- will revitalize a formulaic story. Or they believe adopting a topical theme such as child abuse or computer fraud amounts to having something...
...greater familiarity with Bush may work to his disadvantage. He has been tainted by the Iran-contra affair and questions about his involvement with Panama's Manuel Noriega. "We're all waiting for the other shoe to fall," says Geri Elich, elementary-school librarian and a Republican. In fact, most people dislike Bush more than they favor Dukakis. Says Prineville Mayor Wally Boe: "People aren't enthusiastic about Bush. They haven't been exposed enough to become unenthused with Dukakis...
...easy to exterminate them. Time was when a kindly, old-yet fearless-librarian would walk up to one of these nuisances and tell them in an authoritative manner that'd send tingles down your spine: "If you do not remain quiet, you will have to leave. Talking is not permitted in the library...
...letter was an appeal for the release of Hanna Mykhaylenko, a Soviet librarian from Odessa who was arrested in 1980 for advocating the right of Ukrainians to use their native language. She was declared insane and confined in a maximum security psychiatric hospital...