Word: patronism
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...part whenever he scribbled something to see if a newly cut pen was working, was "Tell me, tell me if anything got finished." And indeed very little did. His big projects for sculpture were never completed--the huge clay model for one of them, meant to commemorate his patron Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan, ended up a shapeless mound, shot to pieces by occupying French archers. His big mural commemorating a Florentine victory, the Battle of Anghiari, became a blistered wreck and was painted over. Little survives of his Last Supper in Milan. And so the melancholy catalog of ruin...
Many of these are stored at what may be the only other archive with original Lynes photographs—the University of Indiana’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. Alfred Kinsey himself, a frequent patron of Lynes’ work, is displayed in the show...
...plain hypocritical." A British government spokesman argues that economic sanctions would be counterproductive because they would harm ordinary Zimbabweans. "The problem is not with the people ... it's with the governing regime." A cricket boycott, the government contends, would only hurt the regime - and Mugabe personally, since he is patron of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union. But shaking Hussain's hand won't win Mugabe glory with his people - cricket isn't especially popular in Zimbabwe - or with the international community, which has already branded him a despot. On the other hand, he could make political capital out of a boycott...
Cheney, who avoided military service in Vietnam with education and then marriage deferments, arrived in Washington for the first time in 1968 as a University of Wisconsin graduate student on a fellowship. His patron, Wisconsin Congressman Bill Steiger, sent Cheney on a fact-finding mission to university campuses that had experienced violent anti - Vietnam war protests. As Cheney told the New Yorker in 2001, it was while he was attending a faculty meeting at his own school that he realized he no longer wanted to finish his Ph.D. and become a professor. The faculty members, he thought, were full...
...with a pail of petroleum. The alleged motive was to punish the restaurant for serving food during Ramadan. But it’s not hard to see the symbolic meaning in this act of terrorism, as Saudi oil mixed with American grease to burn down the temple to the patron saint of decadence...