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...ideas it contains, but also for the way it appeared to those who first read it, for its significance as a specific and tangible piece of history. It will thus be some what difficult for him to pass on his vast and prestigious collection when he retires tomorrow as librarian of Houghton Library after 36 years of service to the Harvard Library system...
...decades, Bond says, he has spent no more than 40 uninterrupted minutes at a time working on his own projects. "It is the curse of the librarian's life doing other people's research, never spending a very long time on any one thing," he explains, smiling. "It leaves you scatterbrained as a result...
...that top rate are the University Professors, a select group of scholars granted the honorary distinction of not being confined to a single department. There will be six next year: historian Bernard Bailyn, literature scholar Walter Jackson Bate. Nobel-winning physicist Nicolaas Bloembergen, economist John Dunlop, historian and Harvard Librarian Oscar Handlin, and philosopher John Rawls...
...zonker is Susan Lloyd, 41, onetime librarian and modern-language teacher, who answered the Longman advertisement and got the job. Her main task was to update Roget's often Victorian language, deleting some of the fustier phrases, adding or redefining 20,000 others, including, for example, Watergate, streaking, hype and quadraphonic sound. "A modern man or woman," she says, "may work as an ombudsman, a psephologist, a spokesperson, a gogo dancer or a deejay." But the disturbed newspaper reaction came from the fact that Lloyd's updating featured an assault on sexism. Indeed, the word sexist has been...
...acted in effect as Roosevelt's minister of culture. Officially, he became Librarian of Congress in 1939, assistant director of the Office of War Information in 1942, Assistant Secretary of State in 1944. And when the war ended, MacLeish headed the U.S. delegation to the founding of UNESCO...