Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gone, the cosmopolitan chatter, the exultations of triumph. In the postlude, longtime Mayor Robert Peacock confessed that the biggest event he could now look forward to was "a good night's sleep." Editor Ronald Landfried of the weekly Lake Placid News wrote of a "nagging feeling of melancholy." Librarian Therese Dixon admitted to a "tinge of sadness." She missed the foreigners who dropped in off Main Street to snatch a look at such papers as Le Monde, Corriere della Sera and the Neues Deutschland-publications ordered for the convenience of the Olympic crowd...
Malcolm C. Hamilton, assistant librarian at the Graduate School of Education, will become the first head librarian of the Kennedy School of Government Library on April 1, Oscar Handlin, director of the University library system, said yesterday...
...committee headed by Graham T. Allison '62, dean of the K-School, selected Hamilton to replace Margery Blake, acting head librarian...
Later, when he traveled to Peking in search of a job as a librarian, scholars laughed at his southern (Hunan) dialect. In this respect, Wilson said, Mao resembles leaders, all of whom came from outlying provinces, such as Napolean, a Corsican, Hitler, an Austrian, and Stalin, a Georgian...
...Some suggested turning the plant into a bus factory. Others thought solar panels would correct the energy losses. Still others said to forget about the plant and transform Hamtramck into a free trade zone or a tourist attraction, like a Polish-theme park. "What Hamtramck does," said one participant, Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin, "will be an example for the rest of the nation." Added University of Pittsburgh Historian Samuel Hays somewhat pessimistically: "It's almost as though you're seeing the death of the manufacturing city right here. And my point is: don't resurrect...