Word: patronize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reach for this opportunity? One possible explanation is, well, simple opportunism. The P.L.O. -- bereft of its superpower patron, cut off from its gulf Arab paymasters, faced with rising Islamic opposition in the occupied territories -- was in a state of terminal decline. Yasser Arafat decided that if the P.L.O. did not accept this offer, there would soon be no P.L.O. to accept any offer...
...Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. The tourist haven's Shaw Festival, one of North America's bigger and better theaters and the world's most faithful keeper of the flame for the white-bearded windbag of Fabian socialism, is sponsoring a debate premised on the heretical idea that its patron dramatist should be outranked as a playwright by his colleague Harley Granville Barker. Although recalled chiefly as producer (The Doctor's Dilemma), director (Major Barbara) or actor (Man and Superman) of many Shavian debuts, Granville Barker is being ballyhooed by Shaw Festival artistic director Christopher Newton as "maybe the last...
...Morpho Eugenia" will satisfy readers of Possession, Byatt's prize-winning last novel. It is the story of William Adamson, a naturalist back from a decade of butterfly collecting in the Amazon who marries into the family of his aristocratic patron. Detailed accounts of ant colonies benefit from Byatt's richly detailed descriptive style, and the life of the ants provides a strong counterpoint to the life of her human characters. Indeed, she is often at her strongest when describing the ants...
...family name can be traced to the Middle Ages, ancestors appear; so does an angel. The Mormon wife is transported to distant spheres by a mystical street black who materializes and vanishes. Cohn is spooked by Ethel Rosenberg, the accused Soviet spy whose judicial execution he maneuvered for his patron, Red-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy...
...today lives with the specter of annihilation. Saddam threatened to "burn up half of Israel." The Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, some of whose leaders Israel famously deported to Lebanon, declares that "every Jew and settler will be a target for murder; his blood and possessions are expendable." Meanwhile, Hamas' patron, Iran, is urgently acquiring ballistic missiles and nuclear materials. The destination of these instruments of mass murder is no mystery...