Word: patronism
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LESSER AND GREATER men and women have attempted to become Crimson editors, and some famous people have failed. Walter Lippman '10, a patron saint of journalism, was cut four times. William Randolph Hearst '96, the Xanadu of newspaper owners, never bothered to try out. And neither seemed the worse...
Died. Jean-Pierre Melville, 55, film director and patron saint of the nouvelle vague of French cinema; of a heart attack; in Paris. Melville changed his name from Grumbach in honor of the American novelist Herman Melville, sported a cowboy hat, and was celebrated for his Gallic exercises in gangster melodramas. His best-known film, Les Enfants Terribles (1948), was made in collaboration with Jean Cocteau, author of the novel...
...charter comes from the beleaguered Nixon. Kissinger has been a busy man these past few days, talking into the night with his old patron Nelson Rockefeller, spending hours in gentle advocacy with Democratic and liberal Republican Senators, seeking out editors and friends to search for grounds for unity...
...failed by straining credulity in portraying the slender, subservient Dean, a born follower, as the "mastermind" in the Watergate coverup, with former Attorney General John Mitchell as "his patron." It contended, in effect, that this cunning pair participated in planning the political espionage at Democratic National Headquarters and then, to conceal that fact, they hindered the investigation by the FBI, compromised the CIA, ordered evidence shredded, and arranged for payoffs and offers of Executive clemency to the arrested burglars to ensure their silence. Creating a constitutional crisis almost alone, the Buzhardt statement in effect charged, Dean and Mitchell kept...
...invoking the favors of St. Joseph, his patron saint, and handing out bottles of burned sacramental olive oil, Brother André reportedly cured as many as 15,000 crippled, blind and dying pilgrims a year. When he died in 1937, at the age of 91, half a million people filed past his bier, and Brother André was put up for sainthood...