Word: librarian
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...video is a follow-up to the literal A-Ha video-turned-Internet-hit. This one takes place in a library and is about a guy who falls "head over heels" for the would-be-hot-if-she-weren't-wearing-enormous-glasses librarian. But like any good 1980s music video, it doesn't make any sense-a monkey, a man in a gas mask, and a rabbi all make absurdist cameos. So when the parody's creator, Dustin McLean, references them directly-"Now the rabbi's walking right behind me"-it's funny. At least, it's supposed...
...takes this admirable impulse too far. Nearly every chapter sub-section ends with a sweeping pronouncement: "Hefner and Playboy's social and political orientation in the early 1960s reflected a Kennedyesque sensibility," he writes in a typical summation. The effect can be grating-a magazine which calls the naked librarian gracing its pages "as dewy as a decimal system" cannot then be said to embody the Cold War ideological gulf demonstrated by Nixon and Khruschev's "Kitchen Debates." Hefner was a canny brand manager and a social visionary. He prodded the public to bare its darker desires...
...clutch of people, of interested poets, who are in workshops.” But for the un-published portion of this clutch, there remains little means of creative cultivation, and Davis represents a beacon of hope for the future of poetry on the Harvard campus. Thomas Horrocks, the associate librarian for collections at Houghton, is excited to have been a part of the board that appointed the poetess as curator. “We wanted someone here for outreach to the faculty, and for student involvement, and we wanted to bring in someone who has done that...
Introducing Burns, Harvard College Librarian Nancy M. Cline commented on the relevance of Roosevelt’s presidential legacy in this electoral season...
...Harvard’s campus cringing. “Palin has lied about not supporting the Bridge to Nowhere,” said Jarret A. Zafran ’09, president of the Harvard College Democrats. “We also know that she tried to fire an innocent librarian that denounced...