Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mahendra has also worked hard to promote tourism. As the custodian of seven of the world's eight highest mountain peaks and, like his Sherpa tribesmen, a mountaineer himself, he recognizes the spectacular attraction of Nepalese real estate. The most exciting of several new tourist hotels is Tigertops, which is built on stilts (like Kenya's Tree Tops) overlooking Nepal's fabled tiger country. Nepal also has some less awesome sights, such as Katmandu's Hindu temples, whose timbers are decorated with erotic carvings designed to frighten off the virginal goddess of lightning. Obviously they...
...immensely complicated as it is-is probably the best understood. Since the German biologist Franz Boll discovered that a chemical change takes place when light enters the eye, scientists have worked out a fairly complete map of the mechanics of vision. Last week Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute, custodian of the Nobel Prize in medicine, jointly awarded the 1967 prize to three of the most important eye cartographers of the present generation: the U.S.'s George Wald and Haldan Keffer Hartline and Sweden's Ragnar Granit...
RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965, edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor and Robert Penn Warren. A posthumous appreciation of the poet and critic, written by his friends, most of them eminent writers whom he served as unofficial custodian of artistic conscience...
...Many Downs. They do get on harmoniously, although somewhat in the relationship of a national monument and its custodian. In a profession where flamboyance and arrogance are often the hallmarks of talent, the diffident Haitink is an anomaly. A short (5 ft. 6 in.), quiet man who likes to take long birdwatching rambles in the woods, he is still slightly awed by the Concertge-bouw's tradition of polished, mellow musicianship and its line of distinguished conductors, particularly Willem Mengelberg and Eduard van Beinum...
...passions have carried him into and out of both the Roman Catholic Church and the Communist Party. His politics appear rarely in his books, but his poetry often. In this novel, Laxness touches with song the most unlikely events, from Jon of Skagi's self-appointment as custodian of the town lavatory to a great debate that raged in Iceland about whether the establishment of barbershops should be permitted. As a storyteller, Laxness shares with Brazil's Jorge Amado (TIME, May 28, 1965) an infectious zest for the eccentricities of ordinary people and a genial affection for those...