Word: patronized
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...level personnel change at the paper in recent years, there was immediate speculation that Executive Editor Ben Bradlee had "got him." The New York Times reported differences in "management policies" between Bradlee and Geyelin. Other handicappers noted that Geyelin's star may have faded when his chief patron, Post Chairman Katharine Graham, 61, stepped down as publisher last January in favor of Son Donald, 33-and that, apparently, is closest to the truth. Donald Graham simply felt that Geyelin was beginning to run out of steam...
...small but genuine talents. Ironically, her death two years ago at age 73 preceded by only a few months the general fame she had courted so long. The source of this attention was a cache of erotic stories she had written, for cash, in the early 1940s; her patron was an anonymous collector who told her to "leave out the poetry and descriptions of anything but sex" and paid her a dollar a page. Published posthumously under the title Delta of Venus, these stories climbed the bestseller charts in mid-1977 and settled there for more than six months. Nearly...
...Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, and therefore Southie, is credited with driving the snakes out of Ireland. Memories of him succeed in driving the ugliness from South Boston for a week in March every year...
...punishing higher reaches of Berg's writing. But her Lulu was sexy and mercurial, as much the victim as the exploiter of her powers. She was superbly matched by Baritone Franz Mazura's richly shaded portrayal of the newspaper magnate Dr. Schön, Lulu's patron and eventual husband. The rest of the cast was excellent too: Tenor Robert Tear as a naive painter undone by Lulu, and Bass-Baritone Toni Blankenheim as the mysterious Schigolch, Lulu's father, a former lover or perhaps a symbol of death...
Straight said if an admission policy which discriminates on the basis of which college a patron attends is illegal, he would consider calling Club Max before...