Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needed by the blind girl for an eye operation, he is thrown unjustly into jail. After he gets out he finds the girl again, but this time, thanks to his generosity, she can see. The picture ends with a haunting scene: the heroine's shattering realization that her benefactor is the tramp, and his tremulously mixed reaction of joy and shame...
...score of claimants for the honor, only Weisberg was able to prove, by references to his original pledge card, that he was Superior's unknown benefactor...
Maria's benefactor is a dapper millionaire banker from Healdsburg, Calif, named Benjamin Bloom. "Benny," as he is known to everybody in San Salvador, built the hospital 22 years ago, and gave it to the government. His one proviso: that he (and after his death, his wife Aline) should have a free hand in running...
...gambit of the innocent who walks straight into somebody else's intrigue and can't get out. With an old friend's promise of a vague job, Joseph Gotten, an American hack writer of Western novelettes, arrives in Vienna just in time to rush to his benefactor's funeral. He learns that 1) his friend was mixed up in some sort of racket; and 2) his death may not have been as accidental as the dead man's Vienna associates-a seedy baron, a teak-faced doctor and a Rumanian fashionplate-so glibly assure...
...Orwell's is the better book in every way, but his debt to We is quickly apparent. In the Russian's novel the characters live in glass houses where state agents can watch them; in 1984 they are spied on by "telescreen." Zamiatin's dictator, the Benefactor, is a counterpart of Orwell's Big Brother. In both, a love affair leads to the hero's undoing. In both, he rebels against the state, is trapped, punished and spiritually crushed...