Word: patronizer
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...means literally "person of art") has undergone some drastic changes and constantly faces the threat of more. A good geisha today must be able to play not only the ancient mandolin-like samisen and the plaintive flute but an adequate 18 holes of golf as well, in case her patron wishes her to accompany him on a country-club weekend. She should be able to discuss not only the classic poets but also atomic energy, a subject now taught at the geisha academy. Her dancing should be at least as up-to-date as the mambo...
...flower shop, and as a doorman, second cook, waiter, beach-comber, bum, and seaman, on the way. In that time he was writing poems too, and a novel, Not Without Laughter, which earned him a $400 award, which was what he had in 1929 when he lost his patron and decided to go to Haiti for a while...
...rapport with the time's intellectual torments, a capacity for drilling and painfully hitting some universal nerve. That, apparently, is the special gift of Simone Weil, a Frenchwoman who died in 1943 at 34 and who has since been informally canonized as a "saint of the churchless," a "patron of the undecided...
...founder and patron saint of Penn, Ben Franklin, stands in front of Logan Hall, surveying the Penn undergraduates with their slacks, sweaters and fraternity pins. If he felt inclined to comment upon his 216-year-old offspring, Ben would be pleased...
Schubert: Octet (David Oistrakh and other Soviet artists; Angel). The Op. 166 that 27-year-old Franz Schubert wrote for a clarinet-playing patron gushes bewitching melody and charm, gets a fine performance from the distinguished ensemble...