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...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...
...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...