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...actually owned by 1,049 proprietors, or shareholders. Many of them have inherited then-holdings as valued heirlooms since the last share was sold by the library in the late 1850s. (Daniel Webster, the eloquent Senator from Massachusetts, was shareholder 296; his plaster bust stares out over a young librarian using a computer.) Most shareholders contribute at least $50 a year to the upkeep of the institution, as do "life members" of the library, who achieve their status by applying with references and paying $500. Both proprietors and life members are allotted four tickets a year for "guests...
Heather I Cole, a senior librarian of Hilles and Lament said that she has been receiving "more complaints than ever" about I amount now that the heat is on in the building...
Daniel Boorstin, historian and Librarian of Congress: The Dialogues of Plato, The Travels of Marco Polo, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, War and Peace, Francis Parkman's France and England in North America...
...result has been a combination of panic, confusion and anger as Mexicans awaited the government's next move. "This is like Russia," said a 54-year-old Mexico City librarian who saves her money in dollars to go on a yearly trip. "We are trapped. It is against the working people who save their money for some simple pleasures." The anger has been aimed largely at President López Portillo, who on Dec. 1 will turn power over to his hand-picked successor, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who won 74% of the vote in last month...
...then set out for Venice to expand his painting skills. After only two years, when he had absorbed all the schooling in color that Titian and Tintoretto could give him, he moved on to Rome, where he became part of the circle of intellectuals who revolved around Fulvio Orsini, librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. During the next seven years, he prayerfully studied the mannerist distortion of the human figure instigated by Michelangelo. Then for reasons still unknown, El Greco decided to try his luck in Spain, where a friend's father was able to get him commissions for Toledo...