Word: patron
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
France's King Henri III first dropped in for dinner on March 4, 1582, and became a regular patron of the Parisian hostelry. Since Harry's day, its habitues have ranged from musketeers to movie stars, presidents to prelates. Withal, La Tour d'Argent has remained one of the brightest, most tenacious stars in world gastronomy.* Kingdoms and republics have passed, boulevards and bridges have been renamed, heroes have risen and fallen-and been denied tables -but La Tour d'Argent has remained as immutable as its name, a tower of salivary silver. To this...
...contemporary literary explosion in South America can't start doing this, it will probably never happen. There is probably more good literature being written in Spanish today than in any other language, and much of it is highly political. Jorge Luis Borges, the white haired patron saint, set the stage for the whole flowering by modulating European tradition into a distinctively South American voice, giving South American writers a new self-confidence. While he remains a grand old anti-fascist liberal, most writers of subsequent generations have been more or less socialist. Some, like Pablo Neruda, put their life...
Both the theater and the company are products of the lavish if uncertain tastes of ballet's reigning Lady Bountiful, Rebekah Harkness, 59. A Standard Oil heiress (courtesy of her late second husband), Mrs. Harkness has had a somewhat tempestuous career as a patron of the arts. Two earlier companies she sponsored broke up in complicated spats involving their artistic directors. Presumably to avoid any recurrence of these aesthetic quarrels, Mrs. Harkness is artistic director as well as proprietor of the present company, most of whose 39 dancers are graduates of her highly regarded school of dance...
...fashionable, the Morrises evidently had one-the roles distributed not by tradition but according to talent. James, Morris admits, was not a strong father figure, at least in part because he had to travel so much doing his books. What he tried to be was a kind of devoted patron, whose love and support the children never questioned. "They have known for sure that I was theirs," he says...
...years with Boeing and then decided to go to graduate school. He was admitted to Princeton in 1964, but he did not receive any scholarship aid and the money he earned was going home to help support younger brothers and sisters. Evans decided to turn to some sympathetic patron to raise the money he needed...