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...many historical books are written to intrigue the citizen as well as the student; they have succeeded, and his Pulitzer Prize is well-merited. Boorstin's faith in the printed word led him to rise at six every morning to write, while holding a more than fulltime job as Librarian of Congress. When The Discoverers quotes Samuel Johnson about writing his dictionary, it could well be referring to its own author; he worked "not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction...
Historian Daniel Boorstin, a Rhodes scholar with degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge as well as both Harvard and Yale, and the Librarian of Congress since 1975, knows all those recondite facts and more. Many more. He also knows how to put them to good use. Having gambled in the 1950s that he could retell the whole American experience in his three-volume The Americans, a wager that eventually won him a Pulitzer Prize, Boorstin is now attempting an even riskier gamble: that he can find a new way to retell the whole history of the world in 745 pages...
Many parents and educators do support the reforms. Says Elaine Dumas, a librarian at Little Rock's Central High School: "If I can't pass the test, I don't deserve to be working with young people." A poll taken by a Little Rock television station found that 65% of those questioned favored the sales-tax increase and 61% approved of teacher testing. The support has surprised even Clinton, who has a three-year-old daughter. Last month in Fort Smith he was approached by a shabbily dressed woman in her 20s who told him that...
Crowley remained in Cambridge where he worked as a freelance conductor, a music teacher (at a private school), and a staff librarian at MIT in the Humanities division, where students mostly do "free-time leisure reading...
...homeless on Los Angeles' Skid-Row. Pamela Leroy '82-4 spent 15 months sailing along Australia's Great Barrier Reef, picking potatoes in New Zealand, and hiking through Thailand, Hong Kong, China, and Japan. Dennis Crowley '75-'85 taught music, conducted and worked as an MIT staff librarian in his decade away from Harvard...