Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carr (an American who has spent most of his adult life in England) is the first biographer to get free access to Sir Arthur's huge stock of letters and manuscripts. Since Carr himself is a talented contriver of whodunits (as "Carter Dickson" he is also the creator of Detective Sir Henry Merrivale), mystery fans are likely to expect his Life to be first rate. They may be a little disappointed. The Life is highly valuable as the most definitive job to date, but some of its fine feast of facts has been spoiled by the way they have...
...majority of the 'Cliffe students behind her and induce their administration, by petition, to open negotiations with our administration to correct this wrong. If they are really serious in their convictions, I am certain that many of us would support them and sign their petition for allowing Radcliffe students access to Lamont Library. George W. Miller...
...19th Century's standard true-life romantic mysteries-the deaths of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and his mistress, Mary Vetsera, in the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling, in 1889. But Author Lonyay (whose princely uncle later married Rudolph's widow) has had access to family accounts never published before; and by the time he has cut his brash trooper's path through the great romance, not all the Charles Boyers, Danielle Darrieuxs and Hollywood directors could put it together again...
...President described Lamont Library as "a long stride forward and a good step backward, a step towards the simple past when the paucity of books and students automatically made a college library easy of access...
Lamont Library marks a return to the belief that education is based on unrestricted access to all that humanity has thought and experienced, Provost Buck told the audience at the dedication of the new library yesterday afternoon. "Our worser selves have had little confidence in the capacity of man to solve his fate, have treated our students as though they were children, and so have sought to substitute for free inquiry, discipline and restraint," he said...