Word: patronizer
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Leaf for leaf, the iviest campus in the Ivy League may well be the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. For decades, this ivy masked a nagging inferiority complex. Outsiders mistook Penn for a state university; insiders yearned to rename it Franklin after Ben, its patron. Though blessed with great graduate schools, Penn was cursed with inert trustees, inept presidents and indolent rejects from Yale and Harvard. "The plaything of the Main Line," Penn dreamed of past glory while dying of the slums that choked its campus and strangled its spirit...
Writing the Book. Running a tomato empire may seem a somewhat unusual occupation for a man who prides himself on being an intellectual, a patron of the arts and an enemy of orthodoxy in business. But Norton Simon, 56, the boss of Hunt Foods, is all of these. A well-groomed, soft-spoken man who is impatient with chitchat, Simon makes friends more quickly with ideas than with fellow businessmen, relentlessly questions the obvious, and declines to go by the book-he likes to write it himself. With a sort of business existentialism, he lives by what he calls...
Each weekend in August, the Italians in the North End of Boston have a festival for a patron saint or protector. Though the inspiration is religious, in practice they show some qualities that redeem them to the masses. Ice cream vendors tinkle along behind the procession, and children scream and cry just like at any other parade. The largest and most exciting is the last, the festival for Saint Antonio de Padova, but the other three are just as important...
Barbara swirls captivatingly through the fashion world, and behind her Dior dresses trails David. The love affairs between the two is trite, yet touching: she gives up everything, including the wealthy "patron" for whom she serves as a decoration rather than a mistress, to run away with her lover. They sing beautiful duets together, but she cannot make him write...
Among Latin America's Roman Catholics, the cult of the saint plays a more vivid role in people's lives than the Mass itself. The feast days honoring patron saints often surpass Christmas in religious fervor, and shrines and grottoes, where miracle seekers pray to their saints, dot the landscape. The church often has to discourage believers in supposed miracles and newly "sainted" beings. Sometimes, as in Brazil last week, this eagerness to accept new visions takes a macabre turn...