Word: patronism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...moved to Manhattan and began to seek bookings in nightclubs. During a three-year job at something called Club Miami in Newark, N.J.. he kept the crowds amused by insulting them, occasionally stepping into the alley to fight it out with a customer. One night a patron smashed him into unconsciousness. It turned out that the patron was boxing's Two-Ton Tony Galento...
...philanthropists on a noble scale: in October Josephine Paul pledged $1,000,000 to Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Their stable of race horses is first rate: one filly, Idun, won $392,490 before her retirement two years ago. Paul, a talented violinist, is a leading patron of the Philadelphia Orchestra. His wife is an art connoisseur and a collector of Meissen china...
...later work returns to human form and emotion, most notably in a series of depictions of Our Lady of Montserrat, Catalonia's patron saint. The original Montserrat is a small wooden figure of the Virgin that legend says was carved by St. Luke. It now stands in mountaintop Montserrat monastery near Barcelona. For Gonzalez, the Montserrat was the symbol of the Spanish peasant, and he wrought the first of his series during the Spanish Civil War-a woman erect and proud, child in one arm, weapon in the other. The series ends in 1942 with his last and unfinished...
From my observations, the best a peon can hope for in a patron is a condescending paternalism, considering the Indians as innocent, somewhat retarded children. The worst he can expect are varied atrocities ranging from the common practice of beatings and whippings to extreme cases of unprovoked murder. Last year in the hacienda neighboring Vicos, two innocent Indians were killed and three seriously wounded by mounted local police acting on orders from the patron. Such incidents are generally silenced by the press and the government, whose spokesmen are often involved in the business end of the hacienda system...
...mature independence and membership in a multiracial Commonwealth. Pragmatically, he knows well that no force on earth can halt the tide of nationalism. But Macmillan realized that if Macleod had stayed on, his colonial policies would have brought down on him the Tory censure that kept his old patron. Rab Butler, from becoming Prime Minister: "He's too far left to be right...