Word: patronizer
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Ekaterina Furtseva has not changed her line, but like many another top Communist, she shows signs of being more relaxed since the death of her old patron...
Dorothy Day, a woman of tranquil faith and fierce independence, approached the problem in her usual direct manner. She got up one morning last week, prayed for help to St. Joseph, patron saint of workers, then walked out of the House of Hospitality to persuade the judge to set aside the fine. Outside the hostel, where daily she feeds some 200 to 300 and nightly shelters 60 men and women, a rumpled, seam-faced man stepped from the knot of drifters and pressed something into her hand. "I just read about your trouble," he said. "I want to help...
...model, the bishopric's Roman Catholic Liturgical Commission turned thumbs down. The clerics objected to a hugely exaggerated surplice that engulfed the saint's figure. It "will give superfluous occasion for wonder instead of admiration," complained the commission report. "Believers could never recognize this figure as their patron...
American composers have never been so busy. The Louisville Orchestra and the Boston Symphony between them are lavishly commissioning new works. Latest patron: Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a "Festival of American Music." This month and in April Juilliard will perform 35 brand-new compositions, all but three of them commissioned by the school. The festival, says Juilliard's President William Schuman, "reaffirms [the school's] sense of responsibility toward the music of its own time." Last week the festival opened in Juilliard's University Heights auditorium...
...pocket, John Tillman was slugged with a blackjack by Owner John Giardina, cracked with a baseball bat by Waitress Phyllis Dixon, smacked with a steel chair by another waitress, punched in the jaw by Giardina's brother, bashed on the head with a beer bottle wielded by a patron, arrested when another customer called the cops...