Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daniel Boorstin, historian and Librarian of Congress: The Dialogues of Plato, The Travels of Marco Polo, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, War and Peace, Francis Parkman's France and England in North America...
...result has been a combination of panic, confusion and anger as Mexicans awaited the government's next move. "This is like Russia," said a 54-year-old Mexico City librarian who saves her money in dollars to go on a yearly trip. "We are trapped. It is against the working people who save their money for some simple pleasures." The anger has been aimed largely at President López Portillo, who on Dec. 1 will turn power over to his hand-picked successor, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who won 74% of the vote in last month...
...then set out for Venice to expand his painting skills. After only two years, when he had absorbed all the schooling in color that Titian and Tintoretto could give him, he moved on to Rome, where he became part of the circle of intellectuals who revolved around Fulvio Orsini, librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. During the next seven years, he prayerfully studied the mannerist distortion of the human figure instigated by Michelangelo. Then for reasons still unknown, El Greco decided to try his luck in Spain, where a friend's father was able to get him commissions for Toledo...
...William Bond teachers with everything be does," Says Roger Stoddard,assistant librarian at Houghton "Someone with his experience with a collection can help a reader in ways that defy filing and catalogues...
...farewell address to his co-workers this spring. Bond tried to express his determination to help others enjoy his life's work. He quotedfrom a speech given in 1822 by Joseph Green Cogswell, then librarian of Harvard Cogswell described the importance of a great library-one whichhas the book you need even if you are the only one who wants it for a hundred years...