Word: librarians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...channel designated for adults. Sometimes 40 people will be on-line at once, their pseudonymous messages scrolling by on the screen faster than the eye can read. "I'm nibbling your earlobe," begins a typical come-on. Reply: "Not so hard!" Men, sporting such nicknames as "Conan the Librarian" and "Loverboy," outnumber women about 4 to 1, and anyone signing on as "Karen the Nympho" will be besieged with requests to TALK. This is the command that allows two users to exchange intimacies in private. Couples who hit it off have traded phone numbers, photographs and, on at least...
...title story, a megalomaniac writes a letter to a retired librarian, apologizing for an insult that the victim almost certainly does not remember. Small wonder. Some 35 years have passed since the young college teacher, raffishly sporting a baseball hat, walked by the library and encountered Miss Rose. She: "Oh, Dr. Shawmut, in that cap you look like an archaeologist." He: "And you look like something I just dug up." Herschel Shawmut has been reminded of his offense by a former friend, who has mailed him a blistering attack on what he was and what he has become: Shawmut...
Those appointments were Fineberg. American Civil Liberties Union official John H.F. Shattuck as the new vice president for government and community affairs, and associate dean for under- graduate education Sidney Verbs '53 as University Librarian...
...want Harvard to set a positive moral example," said Nancy J. Schmidt, librarian at Tozzer Library, and a member of the Committee on African Studies...
...decrease in aid would have "grave implications" for the material scholars use for study, said Kenneth Carpenter, librarian for research and publication...