Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Widener is famous for its great size, (it is the third largest library in terms of volumes owned, in the country), and for the horror stories people tell about it. Some tell tales of the Wandering Graduate Students who prowls the lower levels of the stacks feeding on old critiques of Medieval Scholaticism and accosting wayward freshmen who have lost the golden thread which they tied to the entrance of the stacks in order to find their way back. This stuff is just not true, nor are the tales of skeletal remains found in carrels or those of people...
Padan Aram--A mysterious poetry/literary magazine that appears once every few months, then goes away again. Uneven quality, and it's only in its third year of operation. Lots of weird poetry...
...offer in a one-round competition. In 1957, for example, Fawcett paid $100,000 for rights to James Gould Cozzens' novel of emotional middle-age spread, By Love Possessed. Four years later the same house paid $400,000 for William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich...
...endangers survival. Merlyn's warning to a promiscuous actress about the dangers of V.D. echoes an Army training film, though the reader may not be sure whether the author is trying to be funny or just didactic. The novel's biggest flaw is a switching back and forth from third-to first-person narrative, thus violating Puzo's own first rule of writing...
Besides providing transportation and pleasant outings, roller skating is rapidly becoming a recognized sport. The U.S. Amateur Confederation of Roller Skating lists 12,000 speed skaters, 17,000 artistic skaters and 3,000 hockey skaters, with club membership up by a third in the past two years. National teams of all three kinds of skaters will compete in next year's prestigious Pan-American Games, and skaters are hoping to be included in the 1988 Olympics...