shushers

He writes about "shushers" -- natives who cannot bring themselves to look into the ugly moments of their hometown's past.

IsThatLegal? 2003

She can meet and greet better than the best -- but when she insisted that the enormous crowd "be quiet" and recruited some of us to be "shushers" quieting the din from people who wanted to ignore what was important and get back to who-knows-who stuff, Haddad got the place quiet and made the time and space for talking about serious health issues.

Steve Clemons: White House Correspondents Dinner: Obama Can Also Be His Own Comedian 2010

She can meet and greet better than the best -- but when she insisted that the enormous crowd "be quiet" and recruited some of us to be "shushers" quieting the din from people who wanted to ignore what was important and get back to who-knows-who stuff, Haddad got the place quiet and made the time and space for talking about serious health issues.

Steve Clemons: White House Correspondents Dinner: Obama Can Also Be His Own Comedian 2010

Aren't they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers?

Archive 2007-07-01 Doppelganger 2007

When the FBI came snooping, Carla Diane Hayden proved librarians are more freedom fighters than shushers.

Ms. Magazine Online 2009

Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers?

Librarian Stereotypes and the New York Times vonjobi 2007

Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers?

Archive 2007-07-01 vonjobi 2007