Word: network
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...library world. The number of employees in the College Library system--those 15 which come under the Widener bailiwick--has stayed the same for the past ten years. But acquisitions of collections, and hence the workload of the staff, have dramatically increased. Harvard's library system, once labelled a network so vast and expansive that one can get happily lost," boasts almost 100 branch libraries holding nearly 10 million items. Bryant has seen the construction of the libraries that some consider the finest of their kind: Yenching, Countway Medical Library, Gutman Library the Education School), Pusey, Tozzer, the Fine Arts...
...Explore the possibility of establishing a communications network that would operate in case of a nuclear accident...
...Hydra Head. Billed as the first Third World spy thriller," The Hydra Head is about the loss of identity of Felix Maldonado, a minor bureaucrat in the Mexican government. In a Kafka-esque world in which he has no autonomy, Maldonado becomes an unwilling assassin in an international spy network competing over Mexico's newly discovered oil supply...
...Paley made a similar proposal ten years earlier when CBS was indisputably on top, proud of being "mass with class." Is Paley now out of step at 77? He insists: "In this business at least, one always has to remember that he's not scheduling a network or anything else to please himself; he has to do it in order to please his audience...
Television makes little enough use of its power to form public opinion, and not just because it is running all those sitcorns. Television in 1948 won the right to 5 editorialize on the air, but, says Paley, "finally we concluded there was no way the network could give editorial opinions on national or international subjects." Why? Because so many of its independently owned affiliates had different political opinions. Paley speaks of "heated arguments" with Ed Murrow, Eric Sevareid and Howard K. Smith about editorializing, which is why your ordinary local late-night radiogabber is a lot freer with his opinions...