Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students, scholars, workers and dilettantes who plunge into the institution's collections each year, there are plenty of shocks and threats. Tramps are sometimes to be found stripped naked in the men's room, washing their only set of clothes. This May a reader in the Main Reading Room was suddenly stabbed by the person sitting next to him. The assailant turned out to be a mental patient on day release from a Manhattan psychiatric institution. He wanted to be readmitted because the food was better there than at home, and resorted to violence to get attention. Especially...
Signs in the reading room warn: "Please watch your wallets, purses, and other personal possessions." Readers are not warned about the sexual perverts who, a few times each month, harass women readers. There are the "mirror guys," men with pop-down mirrors on canes that they slide under reading-room tables, the flashers and the touchers...
...gratitude. A few days ago, Sidney Carroll, 66, a television writer and a library addict, leaned back from his notes on the turn-of-the-century Arms Tycoon Basil Zaharoff and reflected aloud: "One of the reasons I live in New York is this library. I love this room. It's hot, but not too much. The types outside the library have changed, but the caliber in side doesn...
...most about Restic--and it is a talent Scheper values greatly--is the coach's ability to communicate. In a recent chalk session, Scheper says, Restic "looked at us and said, 'if you do this right, it will work 100 per cent of the time,' and in that room you could have picked up the confidence in your hand...
Theater is a powerful form of expression and source of "enormous vitality" in China, playwright Arthur Miller told 50 students gathered in Currier House Senior Common Room yesterday...