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Anyone who thinks electronic data storage is going to render print obsolete in the near future should consider Grove's Dictionary of Art, a 5-ft.-long shelf of 34 dark green-bound bricks of scholarship with a 720,000-item index, just published at the rebarbative price of $8,800 and worth every penny. This is, of course, the sister publication to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which, almost since its publication in 1878, has reigned unchallengeably as the authoritative work in its field. After the relentless barrage of propaganda about information that has been growing...
There is, of course, the mundane kind of looking, when you search for a title you know you want--say a biography of Jane Addams--and realize that sitting one shelf down is the book on Chicago progressivism that is the absolute key to your 20-page history paper due next week. That is the useful kind of browsing. But the real fun begins when you're not looking for anything in particular...
...subconsciously realized it before, since the Harvard library system contains far more obscure journals bearing titles such as Marine Oils, Fish Meal and The World Market for Bovine Meat, but I had never thought about the possibility of actually holding it in my hands. Once I discovered the right shelf, I opened up a volume from 1930s, and there was Hemingway; one from the 1960s, and there was Mailer. It was the literary history of the twentieth century, trussed up in a neat package from which some intrepid historiographer could make a book...
...anymore." Once a month or so, the couple will drop $35 on dinner for three at the Red Lobster. "I stopped in the store to get meat for dinner one night this week, and I bought a pint of Swiss chocolate milk for myself. I saw it on the shelf, and it looked so good. I drank it in the car and it spoiled my appetite, but it was great. It was sinful...
...rear. Only the top of his head is visible above the black head support, which resembles a boxer's headgear. Below that, a portion of his shoulders shows above the metal ventilator box, which looks like a robot's backpack and is carried behind the chair on a metal shelf. The translucent tracheostomy tube (trach) leads from the box to the slit in his trachea below his Adam's apple. When he speaks, he must catch the ventilator on the outward breath, finish one sentence and get at least a word into the following sentence to signal his listener that...