Word: patronism
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...society is named for Marguerite de la Sablière, a 17th-century patron of La Fontaine, who turned her house into a meeting place for the literati from the court of Louis XIV. Sablière is also, coincidentally, the name of a nudist resort in France. Credit for the obscure name goes to Francophile Eugenia B. Schraa ’04, another founding member, who is also a Crimson editor...
...simmered apricots. And if you've missed the apricot's glorious, but short, season, the recipe also works well with peaches. Those with a weakness for trivia will find gems throughout the text, which, again, is an addition to the original Pomona. Did you know that currants have a patron saint, John the Baptist? (His feast day, June 24, is around the time of the harvest.) Or that gooseberries have a literary pedigree stretching back to 13th-century France? (The poet Rutebeuf mentions them.) Or that drinking water after eating lots of cherries can cause indigestion? (The liquid swells...
...does is feed procrastination,” said Grille patron Joanna S.B. O’Leary ’03, with mozzarella sticks in hand...
Apparently, advocates of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) have been using the wrong tactics all this time. Instead of arguing that the University has a patriotic obligation to support the students who serve in ROTC, they should have found a wealthy patron. When it comes to pressuring the University, money seems to have a lot more influence than patriotism...
...Nidal was a relic of a bygone era in which terrorists were wholly dependent on the sanctuary and succor of states - and therefore acted primarily as proxies of their patron at the time. Like the PFLP-trained Venezuelan Carlos the Jackal, the Japanese Red Army and Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang, Abu Nidal embarked on a career of mercenary mass murder in the early 1970s, eventually counting among his clients Syria, Libya, Iraq, Iran and possibly others, and generally collecting between $1 million and $3 million per operation. And as the others fell by the wayside, he became...