Word: patronizer
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That is not the worst purpose a country can have. Some politicians and sociologists point out that democracy in Germany could not have risen or lasted had it not been for material wellbeing. Ludwig Erhard, the patron saint of that wellbeing, himself feels that his country needs a greater sense of national purpose. Perhaps a sense of being at the heart of the West's defenses against Communism may yet prove to be enough purpose for any nation. To crystallize that sense beyond the present uncertainties and to help build the structure that must contain it, is a task...
Meanwhile, her reputation as a patron of the arts grew. Mrs. Gardner began to acquire paintings--and a coterie of artists. Whistler once inscribed a book to his friends Mrs. Gardner "whose appreciation of the work of Art is equalled only by her understanding of the artist...
...times, in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wyoming, Kennedy seemed to be trying harder to invoke the conservationist image of Republican Theodore Roosevelt than of the Democratic Party's openhanded patron saint, F. D. Roosevelt. Kennedy seemed ill at ease in this guise-and his audiences sensed...
Louis branded the age with his name. He was, after all, the arbiter of its fashions, the patron of its arts, the instigator of its wars. He was the Sun King, and Le Brun painted him as a god on the vaults of Versailles...
...what capital city in Europe is a beheaded man the patron saint? It is by such recondite clues that the reader comes to understand that the scene of Susan Sontag's The Benefactor is, in fact, Paris. The publishers confirm this on the book jacket. "Identifiable as Paris" is the tentative concession, as if Farrar, Straus had only reached a majority decision on the issue...