Word: patronize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lord Killanin, an art patron and onetime Fleet Street reporter, suggested that Thoor Ballylee, the Galway castle where Yeats lived for twelve years, should be turned into a Yeats museum. Valentin Iremonger, one of Ireland's leading younger poets, calbd this "pernicious sentimentality." Said Iremonger: "We ought to honor our dead by loving our living, not by erecting a necropolis in the County Galway." Iremonger thought he had a better idea: an occasional monetary award for deserving poets. Thomas McGreevy, director of Ireland's National Gallery, thought the ideal memorial would be a retreat where poets and scholars...
...1930s, however, the prime pastime at Muriel's New York parties ceased to be music. Now, like many another patron of the modern arts, Muriel began to discover "the creative impulse . . . in the field of human relations," i.e., Communism. In 1934, she went to the U.S.S.R. "to see firsthand the Russians' new way of living." Three years later, she made a visit to embattled Loyalist Spain, where she discovered that when she looked at a Spanish worker or peasant, "we could both know that we spoke the universal language of truth...
...July 25 was chosen as "Commonwealth Day" because Puerto Rico had observed that date throughout much of its history: under Spanish rule, as the day dedicated to St. James, Spain's patron saint; later, as the anniversary of the landing of a 3,415-man U.S. liberation force under Major General Nelson A. Miles...
...look was enough to convince both oilmen and critics that Patron Standard had accomplished a worthy deed. Such notable artists as Peter Hurd, Joe Jones and Thomas Hart Benton had taken part, and they had worked hard to catch the industry's roaring youth and hard-muscled energy. In bright oils and deft watercolors, they pictured the bustling Louisiana refineries, the purposeful ranks of derricks marching across western plains, the clanging docks where oil tankers are unloaded. There were scenes of an oilfield set in the middle of a Venezuelan lake, of the eerie orange glow from burning natural...
Died. Mrs. Alice Warder Garrett, sixtyish, great lady of Baltimore society and widow of John W. Garrett, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to Italy; of a heart attack; in Baltimore. A longtime patron of the arts, she was the main support of Baltimore's Musical Arts Quartet, a chamber music group for which she built a special theater in her home...