Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that top rate are the University Professors, a select group of scholars granted the honorary distinction of not being confined to a single department. There will be six next year: historian Bernard Bailyn, literature scholar Walter Jackson Bate. Nobel-winning physicist Nicolaas Bloembergen, economist John Dunlop, historian and Harvard Librarian Oscar Handlin, and philosopher John Rawls...
...zonker is Susan Lloyd, 41, onetime librarian and modern-language teacher, who answered the Longman advertisement and got the job. Her main task was to update Roget's often Victorian language, deleting some of the fustier phrases, adding or redefining 20,000 others, including, for example, Watergate, streaking, hype and quadraphonic sound. "A modern man or woman," she says, "may work as an ombudsman, a psephologist, a spokesperson, a gogo dancer or a deejay." But the disturbed newspaper reaction came from the fact that Lloyd's updating featured an assault on sexism. Indeed, the word sexist has been...
...acted in effect as Roosevelt's minister of culture. Officially, he became Librarian of Congress in 1939, assistant director of the Office of War Information in 1942, Assistant Secretary of State in 1944. And when the war ended, MacLeish headed the U.S. delegation to the founding of UNESCO...
...Master has become much more time consuming over the years says Charles F. Kletzsch '51 who has seen five Masters come and go in his 25 years as Dunster Houses's librarian and computer in residence. Kletzsch notes that the original idea of a model Master as a "great scholar" had to be tempered for reasons of practicality...
Guggenheim Fellowships went to Jaime Alazraki, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, William H. Bond, professor of Bibliography and librarian of the Houghton Library, William E. Cooper, associate professor of Psychology, Charles M. Haar, Brandeis Professor of Law; Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Higginson Professor of History; Margaret R. Miles, associate professor of Theology; and Frank J. Sulloway, a postdoctoral fellow in Psychology...