Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Breathalyzer test that showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19, almost twice the legal limit of 0.10. Then there was the matter of his eight previous arrests for drunk driving. The grumbling began later, when the N.Y.P.D. took possession of a 1988 Acura that belonged to librarian Pavel Grinberg. The Polish immigrant, 28, who had been swerving when police pulled him over, was legally drunk at a more modest 0.11 blood-alcohol level. But he had never before been arrested for drunk driving, and he was still relieved...
...Although Theodore Roosevelt, class of 1880, had been a member, his cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt, class of 1904, did not get into the Porcellian-one of the greatest disappointments of his life. He settled for serving as Fly librarian...
...These [policy changes] were taking placebefore this year started. Personally, I think alot of it was triggered with the Scott Kruegerincident," Owl Librarian Jonathan Powers '00 says."It blew up again after the legal decision washanded down this year...
...crux of I Get No is the collapse of time. When an Elvis-impersonator bursts upon the founding fathers, we see the most realistic instance of time-space confuscation. "Elvis" escorts a dorky librarian to the future, where his mission is to prevent a militaristic presidential candidate from winning and fulfilling his alliance with a disco-dancing tele-evangelist by outlawing rock'n roll. They do so by transforming a stuttering barber-woman into the Cinderella candidate destined for victory. What follows is a synchronic allegory of post-revolutionary American history only thinly disguised as an innovative commentary on gender...
...define Hefner wholly in terms of other bands because their inoffensive songs sound thoroughly derivative. Nothing's new, but nothing's unlistenable. Closest to unlistenable are "The Librarian," wherein Mr. Harding's vocals grate irritatingly over a harmonica, and "Tactile," a too-lengthy acoustic-like drag. "The Sweetness Lies Within" and "A Hymn for the Postal Service" display lovely guitar-work. "Love Will Destroy Us in the End"--despite containing the line "We feel so empty and our late twenties should be better times"--is pleasantly anthemic, the best three-minute pop song on the record. Or at least...