Word: librarian
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Historian Daniel Boorstin, a Rhodes scholar with degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge as well as both Harvard and Yale, and the Librarian of Congress since 1975, knows all those recondite facts and more. Many more. He also knows how to put them to good use. Having gambled in the 1950s that he could retell the whole American experience in his three-volume The Americans, a wager that eventually won him a Pulitzer Prize, Boorstin is now attempting an even riskier gamble: that he can find a new way to retell the whole history of the world in 745 pages...
Crowley remained in Cambridge where he worked as a freelance conductor, a music teacher (at a private school), and a staff librarian at MIT in the Humanities division, where students mostly do "free-time leisure reading...
...homeless on Los Angeles' Skid-Row. Pamela Leroy '82-4 spent 15 months sailing along Australia's Great Barrier Reef, picking potatoes in New Zealand, and hiking through Thailand, Hong Kong, China, and Japan. Dennis Crowley '75-'85 taught music, conducted and worked as an MIT staff librarian in his decade away from Harvard...
There were leaks in the lobby. There was a leak in the basement. It rained in the office of Cabot's librarian. More leaks spring in the Science Centre than ever plagued the Nixon Administration...
Meyer Head Librarian Elizabeth Salzer said she had hoped for "more constructive means" than a sit-in to deal with students discontent, but that she welcomes student interest in other forms...