Word: patronize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost all of his contemporaries, Mozart was just another court composer, more unconventional and therefore worse than scores of his competitors. The elderly Haydn recognized his genius; so did the young Beethoven. Not so Emperor Joseph II, Mozart's patron, who once said of a Mozart aria: "It has too many notes in it." ("Sire, just as many as there ought to be," Mozart retorted.) Nor did Mozart's wife Constanze (younger sister of his old love, Aloysia) see his greatness. She had her own creating to do. Of their nine years of marriage, she spent...
Envious Americans have long considered the French their unchallenged masters in the art of theatrical nudity, and many a Minsky patron has dreamed of the unlikely day when he might graduate to an evening of the famed Folies-Bergère. But the fact is that the Minsky form of perambulant, progressive nudity known as the striptease is an American art form...
Scholar's Prince. What called Fra Angelico away from San Domenico was the triumphant return from political exile on Oct. 6, 1434 of Cosimo de' Medici, the wealthiest banker of his day, munificent benefactor and art patron whose scholarly passions and political adroitness made Florence the foremost city of the Renaissance. Cosimo's rule created for Florence an interval of peace and poise in which a man could aspire to make a balanced masterpiece of his life. As the outward expression of this, Cosimo set to work on a program to make Florence the wonder of Europe...
Triple Family. Author Keyes feels that St. Anne "seems closer to Christ than any other saint and closer to us even than the Blessed Mother." However this may be, Anne is widely and warmly venerated. She is patron saint of Brittany and of the world's second most famous healing shrine (Ste. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec). There are nearly 400 Roman Catholic churches dedicated to her in the U.S., plus many Episcopal churches...
...Harry Hopkins. Hopkins and Harriman used to play croquet (Harriman had dismounted from polo by that time) at Herbert Bayard Swope's estate on Long Island. It was the beginning of a great friendship. Wrote crotchety old Harold Ickes: "Mr. Harriman was one of the famous group of patron-protégés of the late Harry Hopkins. Probably he was the chief of these. He was always willing to scratch Harry Hopkins' back just as Hopkins was willing to scratch his ... He started Harriman on his public career, and kept promoting him until the very...