Word: custodian
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Clifford K. Shipton, archivist and bibliographer, who once described himself as "a climber of family trees," is retiring as Custodian of the Harvard University Archives, a position he has held since...
Corruption in the clubs was not confined to the Little Mafia, according to testimony. One booking agent, a blonde former dancer named June Collins, 34, said that all the club custodians whom she knew in Viet Nam demanded and received kickbacks from entertainers. She reported paying about $10,000 in two years to get jobs for clients, and was still frozen out of one club after she rebuffed the custodian's amorous advances. She heard one sergeant boast that "being a custodian is worth...
Explosion of Spirit. Just what was this movement that unhinged years of European confidence in its own authority as custodian of Western culture? Curator William Rubin, who assembled the show, carefully avoids either the term Abstract Expressionism or Action Painting. He settles for the title "The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation." The catalogue defines the school as those artists who shared "common goals, a common revolutionary élan, a common disengagement from middle-class values." They were determined to challenge modernist European tradition, and the six-year interlude of the war had proved they were no longer...
...amateur golfer and son of a polo player, against John Willis, 25, ex-boxer and son of a Manchester factory worker. Bostwick developed his game at New York's Racquet and Tennis Club; Willis picked up his skills as an apprentice professional while earning his keep as a custodian at the Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club...
Looking Askance. As Secretary of the Interior, however, Hickel would be the custodian of 750 million acres of federal lands, forests and national parks-and rank as the nation's chief defender against the land-grabbing giveaways and pollution that have spoiled much of the environment in the past. Yet after his nomination in December, Hickel did not hesitate to say that he found little merit in "conservation for conservation's sake," a remark that created an even bigger furor among lovers of nature than Ronald Reagan caused when he said that seeing one redwood...