Word: patronism
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...Buenos Aires last week was that the Monet-snatcher had no intention of trying to dispose of the picture-he was just settling an old score with the National Museum's Director Augusto da Rocha. A tightfisted administrator (he slashed the museum's staff) and no patron of the local art mart, politically rightist da Rocha has long been at odds with most Argentine artists, who are largely left-of-liberal. The expertly executed theft might prove embarrassing enough to cost...
President Ramon Grau San Martin's troubles multiplied. He faced a barrage of criticism from his own supporters for 1) not dealing with the acute food shortage; 2) hesitating to clean up the swaggering armed forces; 3) making bad political appointments. As adherents of his onetime patron, former President Fulgencio Batista, joined the attack, three mysterious bomb explosions rocked Havana...
...signal from their leaders, loose a barrage of claps and bravos. The claque is paid by the Metropolitan's singers, who provide free admission and pay from $5 for a mild flurry of handclapping to $25 for a deafening furor. The late Enrico Caruso, a liberal patron, never sang without the help of a claque. In the days of Impresario Giulio Gatti- Casazza, the chief of the Met's claque, a hardy Italian named Harold Lodovichetti, described himself on his business cards as "Promoter of Enthusiasm." The claque's present leader is a more conservative...
Today, in all of Manhattan's worthy nightclubs and hotel ballrooms, this universal more is maintained. Checks are always presented, on a platter, with the mathematical notations hidden from the naked eye until the patron who is to pay for the fun decides to turn it over, a prerogative that is invariably exercised...
...Treasury's 918 pages bristle with songs and stories about Paul Bunyan, Old Stormalong, John Henry, Johnny Apple, seed, The Arkansas Traveler, backwoods boasters, killers, patron saints, miracle men - with many an anecdote, joke, tall tale, proverb, animal and ghost story, jingle, ballad, and hunks of widely known, rarely published Americana. If they tell little about U.S. history, they tell much about U.S. character. Editor Botkin wisely keeps his comment to a minimum, lets his collection tell its own story in its own lingo...