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Lord's most indelible portraits involve the turbulent decade of the Cultural Revolution. An actress talks at length about being forced to drop out of a school for the gifted when her librarian father was accused of being a "rightist." She confesses to Lord that her resentment hardened into a "hate so unnatural that it could sever the bond between a loving father and a loving child." Not until she was sent to collect her father's ashes from the prison where he died did she come to see that it was the regime, not her father, that...
...Mapleson Cylinders (Distributed by Metropolitan Opera Guild, 1985). Calve sings! And so do Nordica, Sembrich and De Reszke on these treasures from the Met, recorded on wax cylinders by the company's librarian between...
Saying he will seek new personal and professional challenges, the head librarian at the Loeb Library of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) announced last week that he would resign after 25 years...
Although Congress has been asked to investigate the investigation of the investigation, it is likely that little will come of it. The FBI's domain remains fairly sacrosanct, and Congressional scrutiny will not change the attitude of those who initiated the librarian surveillance...
...answers could be found there on just what to do with these famous fellows. Keynoter Daniel Boorstin, former Librarian of Congress, suggested creating "a House of Experience," like the British House of Lords, where retired, talented Americans could offer their wisdom. Public television's pragmatic Roger Mudd pointed out that the last thing a new President would welcome would be an official pulpit for the guy he just ran out of office...