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...with the reign of the energetic Shah Abbas I, who made it his capital. As Anthony Welch explains in his excellent catalogue, Shah Abbas transformed the traditional Persian arts, previously the province of a tiny, cultivated elite, into a more widely based, commercially successful venture. He was a generous patron, who took a personal interest in the production of anything that added to the glory of his reign. Isfahan was so completely his creation that his corrupt successors did not significantly change the outward shape of his society. Yet their dissipation ate away at its heart. Isfahan's essential weakness...
...energy czar has a quick temper, and aides dread being chewed out by him. But the storms almost always blow over and are swiftly forgotten. Simon has a sense of humor, too. When his patron Shultz once angrily told the press that White House Aide Melvin Laird should "keep his cotton-picking hands" off tax matters, Simon sent Laird a pair of white gloves...
...allots its sparse treasury selectively, and for PBS that is an accepted practice. But a great rift erupted between PBS and CPB early this year when the CPB itself attempted to exert creative control over programming. In the past, CPB had been a patron of the television arts, and a rubber stamp for the creative talents of professionals at PBS. But Loomis sought to bypass PBS and its "Eastern liberal" point of view. CPB directors voted unamimously to begin the financing and distribution of specific programs to affiliates. PBS was to be limited to the operation of technical facilities...
...prodigies have had better luck. At 16 he was introduced to Count Guillermo de Morphy, a patron of the arts and adviser to Spain's Queen Maria Cristina. The count tutored Casals in several languages and presented him to the Queen, who was an enthusiastic pianist. Soon the Queen and the young cellist were playing duets together...
Thus music lovers heard with relief that Avery Fisher, 67, a pioneer manufacturer of hi-fi components, has given an estimated $10 million to maintain what now becomes Avery Fisher Hall, and the fourth Lincoln Center building named for benefactors. Philanthropist Vivian Beaumont Allen gave $5,000,000, Arts Patron Alice Tully, an estimated $5,000,000, and Mitzi Newhouse, wife of Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse...