Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is no doubt that the work is authentic. The original 20-page, handwritten manuscript is stored at the University of Texas' Humanities Research Center at Austin, the main repository of Waugh's papers since 1967. U.T. Research Librarian Ellen Dunlap notes that the unbound folio of Schooldays bears the novelist's signature and the date Oct. 13, 1945. It is reasonable to assume that Waugh, flushed with Brideshead"s critical and popular success, decided to give a primed public more about Charles Ryder. Chapter 1 bears one piece of sad news: his mother was killed...
...still a country where a great many alliances were arranged by parents, or through go-betweens, on a "marry now, love later" basis. Moreover, couples frequently find themselves trapped in political marriages that seem pointless after each new shift in the political winds. During the Cultural Revolution a young librarian suspected as an "intellectual" was terrified of the rampaging Red Guards. She married the rebel leader at her high school to gain political protection in an alliance known as a "Red Umbrella" marriage. When the revolution was over, she applied for a divorce and got one. Some, like Yu Luojin...
...Librarian, I am cold. Pray you. Undo this button. Thank you, sir. Do you not see the gazelle on the rushing waters? I know he looks at me ("What if Harry Levin wrote the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay?"). I am sleepy and the oozy weeds about me twist. "Chirp...
Enter the librarian. She asks one why he wants the window open: "To get some fresh air." She asks the other why he wants it closed: "To avoid the draft." After thinking a minute, she opens wide a window in the next room, bringing in fresh air without a draft...
Study who is questioned sympathetically, who is hassled, then figure out which investigator, Congressman, insurance commissioner or local Librarian first alerted CBS to the story. The clues will be about the same as for those that govern news paper leaks. As Lyndon Johnson once told Henry Kissinger: "I have one piece of advice to give you, Professor. Read the columnists, and if they call a member of your staff thoughtful, dedicated, or any other friendly adjective, fire him immediately. He is your leaker." That was in the days before Kissinger, as Secretary of State, became the most adroit leaker...