Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passage about the indifference of the wealthy to American housing problems, and concerns a recently built women's dormitory at M.I.T.: "One wealthy lady gave money for the construction of a girls' dormitory in Cambridge. It is a luxurious building, done in contemporary style... However, the lady benefactor did not at all aspire to do something good. She wanted to immortalize her name before death, and so it is immortalized, inscribed upon a memorial slate at the main entrance...
...work" in Puerto Rico from December 28 to January 3, the Krokodiloes spent their last two days in the Virgin Islands, where they sang for several benefit concerts. The twelve man group also gave a short performance for Alfred V. Carpenter, benefactor of the Visual Arts Center, at his home in St. Croiz...
Golden Boy. The mourning voices first of all were for the President of the United States, regardless of his name or identity. For in a sense far beyond daily foreign policy squabbles, he is to much of the world the protector of the weak, the benefactor of the poor...
...BENEFACTOR by Susan Sontag. 274 pages. Farrar, Straus...
...what capital city in Europe is a beheaded man the patron saint? It is by such recondite clues that the reader comes to understand that the scene of Susan Sontag's The Benefactor is, in fact, Paris. The publishers confirm this on the book jacket. "Identifiable as Paris" is the tentative concession, as if Farrar, Straus had only reached a majority decision on the issue...