Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simple word a librarian suggested that I keep in mind when dealing with books was a calm, stern reminder--"respect...
...Respect that you may hold in your hands the dried-up remains of the sweat of a man 400 years dead. Don't drop them, the librarian said. Respect that you hold wrought leaves of paper that were molded and dried long seasons ago into these pages, and that they have drunk up the learning of generations. Don't pull it from the top or the binding will break, the librarian said. Ultimately, respect that what you hold is a treasure brought out of the fog of time, out of the mind of a master, whose message to the world...
People build lives out of this respect. Forty-year-old Helen Kelly opened a used-book store in 1977 on Beacon Street and soon began selling rare books and manuscripts. Seven weeks ago, she opened a second, two-room store above a floral shop on Center Street in Jamaica Plain to house the more valuable items. She celebrated the opening of the Boston Book Annex branch with the birth of her first child, a boy, three weeks...
Margaret A. Burnham of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute called the show "an important addition to the public discussion taking place in this bicentennial year, it raises questions whether promises of equality have been real with respect to Black Americans...
...undergraduates have a hell of a lot to learn about respect," she fired off. "You have beer parties to all hours of the morning, play your stereos too loud--and who knows what else you do!" Like a train, her momentum carried her as she gasped for breath. "You take up the space that used to be for visiting professors. Learned people would come with their families. You could learn so much from them...