Word: patronism
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...want to hear good opera," the Empress Maria Theresa-once remarked, "I must go to Eszterháza." Such was the fame of Joseph Haydn's musical establishment at the country palace of his patron, Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, that even crowned heads journeyed from Vienna to rural Hungary to hear his operas. Yet today the two dozen or so operas by one of music's most important, beloved figures are the least known of his major works. It is an undeserved obscurity...
...some of his younger customers object. Says he: "The biggest complaint I get is that the food is too salty." That is not a problem at Chez-Eddy in Houston, which specializes in lowfat, low-salt French cuisine and has no salt shakers on the tables. But, says one patron who is mad for their salmon mousse, "the place is always packed at lunchtime...
Parton's picture hangs prominently on the station wall, and her spirit is constantly invoked, as if she were the patron saint of such enterprises. Though the songs do not always have the authentic hillbilly twang, the spirit is right, as cheery, relaxed and amiable as the first really warm day of spring. Dolly would probably approve...
February 5, 6:38 p.m.--A patron at the IAB reported his watch and wallet missing. An unknown person broke into his locker, stole his receipt and claimed the items from the desk...
...murder's infamy usually derives from the renown of the victim or the ghastliness of the crime. But when Richard Adan, 22, a budding playwright and a waiter, was stabbed last summer by a restaurant patron, the fascination focused on the killer: Jack Henry Abbott, Marxist, existentialist, prison murderer, author (In the Belly of the Beast) and, beginning a few weeks before Adan's killing, literary celebrity (see ESSAY). On his 38th birthday last week in Manhattan, Abbott was found guilty of manslaughter. Because he admitted that he had killed Adan, the verdict was considered a victory...