Word: patronizer
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...concrete building a series of birthday celebrations. Following on a recent historical exhibition about the building is this “puppet opera,” which weaves together narratives of the building’s commission with Huyghe’s own experience working with a university patron given to bureaucratic excesses...
...university—especially in terms of its role as the focus and birthplace for the instruction of the visual arts. In his filmed puppet show, Huyghe makes what may be one of the strongest statements in his presentation of a modern allegory of the artist and his institutional patron, bound by the strings of inflexible bureaucracy...
...consulting firms. But I never thought that I’d consider such a career choice. I enjoy creativity of the kind not often found in corporate offices; I like helping the needy, though not through tax cuts; and I like working in the arts, though not as a patron. However, despite all of this, when September rolled around, my type-A personality kicked in, and I too found myself attending the recruiting meetings...
...baseball team is fortunate because Joe O’Donnell—their patron saint, after whom their field is named and with whose money their new dugouts are being built—will always take care of them. But Harvard’s other programs? Well, they’ll just have to hope Harvard Stadium doesn’t fall apart and the ice doesn’t take too long to freeze...
Sherry's greatest find is, no doubt, the letters--tender, imploring and naked--that Greene wrote over decades to Walston. The man often celebrated as the patron saint of doubters is here revealed as one of the romantics of the century ("You are the only real life there was: everything else was a drug to keep me going until you were with me"). Yet showcasing these letters gives us a sexual Greene at the expense of a mischievous Greene or the anguished Catholic Greene. And each time Greene's prose appears on the page, Sherry's seems more prosaic...