Word: patronism
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...truth is just the opposite. It is easy to indulge "other significant values" than excellence and to pretend that nothing has happened and that our patron saint John Stuart Mill would smile on us. What is hard is to sustain excellence against the temptation of other values that appear to be more significant...
...WELL THAT ENDS WELL, OR so the saying goes. At the end of this Shakespeare play, the girl gets the boy of her dreams, the boy is pardoned by his wealthy mother and patron king, and the ratty scoundrel becomes the dearest friend of his former foe. Sounds quite well, doesn...
...likely. The new bad feeling will complicate the bargaining and give the media yet another bonanza. Charles went about his public duties, but Diana abruptly withdrew from a fund-raising event for the British Red Cross, of which she is patron. Said Atkinson: "She is upset and decidedly...
...AWAITED A PRETRIAL HEARING IN THE murder of Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz, Team Foxcatcher, the elite squad of wrestlers the millionaire supported on his Pennsylvania estate, had to balance their mourning with concerns about the future. Not only is Schultz, their friend and team leader, dead, but their patron is in jail--just as they are preparing to qualify for the Atlanta Olympics...
...commune with the skeletons of fallen German soldiers. Clerks and metal workers by day turn into street brawlers and arsonists at night. For nonviolent recreation some play a kind of anti-Semitic Can You Top This: a gaunt Nazi nostalgist goes by the nickname "Auschwitz"; a rich Austrian patron of the movement paints a Star of David inside his toilet bowl; a distributor of Holocaust-denial material jocularly offers his customers a computer game called Concentration Camp Manager...