Word: patronize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...18th century, the three tropical islands rising out of the water a few miles off the coast were a sight to behold. According to legend, the largest and most beautiful they named Royale in honor of their sovereign, King Louis XV. The second was named St. Joseph after the patron saint of their voyage, and the third was named Devil's Island because of the angry sea around it. But when the settlers christened the cluster as a whole, they became the authors of one of history's ironies: they called the group the Islands of Salvation...
...Houston was fascinated by the statuettes the Eskimos had made for centuries for their own pleasure and, once made, had tossed negligently aside. Houston took samples south, where collectors snapped them up. In 1951 Houston settled in Cape Dorset as the Canadian government's civil administrator and chief patron of the local artists. Once Houston had built carving into a business that grosses $150,000 each year, he looked for another art form into which to guide Canada's Eskimos. He remembered seeing incised drawings some Eskimos had done in soapstone, and decided they could become printmakers...
...patron saint, the Blessed Martyr Leibowitz (canonized in the course of the novel), was an electronics engineer strangled and roasted alive by the mob in the anti-scientist massacres following the Flame Deluge. Among the memorabilia which the monastery preserves are scraps of books and diagrams that gradually result in the rediscovery of electricity and other appurtenances of the "Golden Age'' of the 20th century. Proud as Jove, the blind earthlings hurl the megatons all over again. At novel's end, a picked band of the monks, bravely singing old space chanteys, boards a "starship" for outer...
...citizens in Metropolitan France. But as last week wore on, metropolitan Frenchmen came to realize that it was not the insurgent settlers they had to fear; it was the French army, which stood revealed as neither a neutral witness nor an unwilling accomplice, but as the active and continuing patron of the settlers' revolt. "The army," lamented Paris' Les Echos, "has become the first party in France...
...could well afford the celebration. Last week his American International Insurance Corp. reported that in 1959 it collected $155 million in life and general (fire, casualty, and marine) insurance premiums, has more than $1 billion in force. From his insurance fortune, Starr can also afford to be a sportsman, patron of the arts and philanthropist. He spent more than $2,000,000 transforming Stowe, Vt. into the Magic Mountain of New England skiing, underwrote the cost of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Mad ame Butterfly (TIME, March 3, 1958), and has helped further international relations by annually...