Word: patronism
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...Patron. The first signal came during New York Timesman Harrison Salisbury's four-hour interview with North Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong, whom some observers regard as le patron-the real boss-of the war effort. According to Salisbury, Pham emphasized that his oft-reiterated "four points"* for settlement of the war were not meant as prior "conditions" for peace talks but as a "basis of settlement." Since Hanoi had hitherto insisted that the U.S. had to accept these terms before talks could begin, the apparent shift in emphasis stirred a flurry of speculation. Was Pham...
Dodder Bank. When Joyce's Paris patron, Sylvia Beach, wrote to George Bernard Shaw, offering to sell him an early copy of Ulysses, Shaw replied: "I am an elderly Irish gentleman and if you imagine that any Irishman, much less an elderly one, would pay 150 francs for a book, you little know my countrymen." Joyce won a box of cigars on that exchange: knowing his countrymen, he had bet that Shaw would decline. Yet Shaw in another letter refutes the canard that he was disgusted by Ulysses. Writing to London's Picture Post, Shaw explained...
...Paul Donahue, 51, grandson of Dime Store Magnate F. W. Woolworth and first cousin of Heiress Barbara Hutton, a lifelong bachelor who was the stereotype of the high-living, chorine-chasing playboy of the 1930s, then settled down to become a charity fund raiser and enough of an arts patron to donate $100,000 to the new Metropolitan Opera House; of visceral congestion; in Manhattan...
...Although I am a happily married family man I long ago gave my wife fair warning that there was Another Woman-Julia Child. We were both delighted to see our Other Woman gracing your cover. In fact, we plan to laminate your likeness of our patron saint of fine cuisine and hang it permanently in our kitchen, where Mrs. Child can afford us not only inspiration but, occasionally, solace for our fluffs...
They say that St. Genesius, the patron saint of the theatre, was a Roman burlesque comic. He must have been watching over Forum--happy as a saint, that the proceeds will go to Radcliffe's charitable Grant-in-Aid; and pleased, as a pro, that this production is such a funny thing...