Word: stalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first glance, the propriety governing Charles Montalbano's operation of the stacks also would have met Mrs. Widener's approval. "The beauty of working in Widener and being assigned to a stall is that you can charge books to it and leave them there without having to run and retrieve them," Montalbano, the curator of the Widener and Pusey stacks, said the other afternoon. Last year Montalbano assigned stalls to each of the 640 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) students, 208 non-GSAS Harvard grad students, 137 visiting scholars, and four undergraduates who requested places. "And there hasn...
...gain access to the stacks, he has spent his time there doing research for his future novel about the experience of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Unlike Garner, what bothers Asakawa about Widener is not the atmosphere but the price paid by a visiting scholar to rent a stall. "There were good books on what happened during General MacArthur's administration in Japan, but it cost me about $165 for three months, so I xeroxed a lot of things and left," he said...
...Elizabeth W. Mark '52 waited 27 years to enter Widener's halls. But when she rented a stall last year to write her dissertation for Boston University on sex differences and the need for intimacy, she found the library somewhat disappointing. "Working in Widener is a very lonely endeavor," Mark said last week. "And eating in the Faculty Club, which was convenient, was even worse since I often had to eat by myself." Although she was strongly motivated to do a doctorate both to extend "the depths" of her knowledge and for her resume, Mark found it difficult to shut...
...quality of life, reminiscent of Carl Asakawa's theme, is a favorite topic of another Widener scholar and one of Fawzi's friends who joined him for lunch that day. This retired rabbi and teacher, who asked that his name be withheld, has camped in a Widener stall since 1958 investigating the relationship between customs and daily life for the Jews of the late Middle Ages. His scholarly interests, the rabbi said, lie in examining customs as a basis for case study and in putting customs in a typological framework...
Blair Axel '76, one of the youngest stall-dwellers, envisions Widener as both the scholar's idea of a home and Mrs. Widener's idea of a temple of knowledge. "It's really Siberia down there," Axel said last week. He estimated that he spent 10-12 hours a day inside a C-level stall while working on his thesis which deals with the founding of The Nation, an intellectual journal of the post-Civil War period. "The walls are bedrock. I sat there shivering and turning pages. The only problem was falling asleep." He laughed, "I haven't been...