Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finer gift; moreover, the works, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries, filled in a period where the de Young's own collection was weak. But museum officials were perhaps the least bit embarrassed too-about the personality of the donor. She happens to be the widow and custodian of the estate of T. Edward Hanley, the distinguished art collector and industrialist, who died last year at the age of 75. But she is also the most uninhibited woman to come out of Hungary since Zsa Zsa Gabor...
BLACKS have shown the same disdain for the hypocrisy of the "custodian liberals" of the Hubert Humphrey variety, who have promised so much and done so little. By 1964, when SNCC disavowed the Democratic Party, "the Negro South was coming to discount for the most part American democratic idealism and white liberal ideology because there was so little evidence of either's working." Linking this similar feeling among both blacks and poor whites. Watters sees some hope for an old dream-the kind of populist alliance Tom Watson-and later Huev Long-tried to forge. He is not so naive...