Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indisputable factor in Stravinsky's conversion to serialism was the arrival within his household of Schoenberg's former research assistant, the young American conductor Rober Craft. In addition to becoming Stravinsky's rehearsal conductor, literary collaborator, companion and surrogate son, Craft was the unofficial custodian of the Stravinskian image. In this role especially through a series of remarkable "conversations with" books, he enabled a wide audience to savor the composer's pungent personality...
Obviously, there are some students here who aren't capable of caring properly for animals, and this is supposedly the reason for Harvard's opposition to keeping pets. Last Spring seniors in Quincy House left behind a cat, and when the custodian finally discovered the cat three weeks later, he was wild and had to be put to sleep. Superintendent John Allen, who's not much of an animal-lover anyway, remembers this incident and cites it as one good reason why we shouldn't keep pets. In Leverett this Fall, one owner was so negligent that...
...ignorance that his nobles were cutting off the ears of outspoken foes. Happily, Guinness has his own ideas of how the role ought to be played. Hobbled by a stutter, consoled by a piety that assures him a crown in heaven, Guinness' Charles I is a not unsympathetic custodian of decay, unable to negotiate-how could a King make bargains?-even for his own life...
...Temple Custodian. David Hoyt, 24, is one of them. Two months ago Hoyt founded the House of Judah in Atlanta's hippie district. The two-story frame house, once home to a hippie commune, now shelters young runaways and others who have been unable to cope with the surrounding drug culture. It was Hoyt and his wife Virginia who had sat patiently in one of the Jesus tents at Atlanta's rock festival, waiting to help. "The whole scene was a disaster," says Hoyt. "We have one boy who flipped out. Satan got his soul...
...sniff glue, drink wine, steal cars. He spent six years in a California reformatory, two more in jail for smuggling narcotics. Paroled at 20, he drifted to the flowering world of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, where he became a member of the Hare Krishna cult and custodian of the Radha Krishna temple. But the surrounding Hashbury mi lieu disturbed him: "I felt the hip scene was filled with plastic love and plastic peace. Their love was lust and their peace was a finger sign." Finally, Hoyt encountered one of the first of the new "Jesus people," a Baptist...