Specs, Stereotypes
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Why is it when someone is described as wearing glasses, these are called “librarian glasses”? (“Faces,” Janice Arkatov, July 2).
Aren’t glasses worn by lawyers, bookkeepers, scientists, ministers, just about anyone?
“Librarian glasses”? . . . There’s no such object.
JOHANNA E. TALLMAN
La Canada
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