Word: patronizers
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...Music Hall's problem is, of course, economic. The stage show is perhaps the best entertainment bargain in town; for as little as $2, a patron has been able to see low-kitsch ballet, precision numbers by the Rockettes, a magic show, an occasional elephant, horses and giant fountain displays. While Rockefeller Center, which owns the theater, is now giving it a $1,000,000 annual subsidy, the money does not make up for a marked drop in attendance over the last two decades. In its peak years in the '40s, the Music Hall attracted 12 million visitors...
...Honorary Chairwoman was Joan Kennedy, who headed the list of noteworthies including professors John Kenneth Galbraith. James S. Ackerman, Fogg Director Daniel S. Robbins, former Brandeis Rose Art Gallery Director William Seitz, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Perry Rathbone, Boston's First Lady Kathy White, art patron Elma Lewis, and filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. Some of these sponsors donated works to be sold in the auction, like an antique instrument given by former President of Radcliffe Mary Bunting, while others helped publicize the event. But the real organization job rested with chairwoman collector Nataile Klebenov...
Although Nixon has claimed to be a patron of the arts, figures for the amount given to the National Endowment for the Arts do not show significant increase. Hyde emphasized, "The National Endowment support is nowhere near where it should be. It should be $200 million, not $60 million. These are important demands...
That was enough to bring the blood of all Naples to a boil. San Gennaro, a newspaper editorial proclaimed, was "not just the patron but the godfather of Naples." A professor at the University of Naples, Gastone Lambertini, accused "modern" Catholics of having an "anemic faith." He announced that he had secured Cardinal Ursi's permission for a group of scientists from the university to study the phenomenal blood of Naples' patron saint...
Tiffauges is the patron saint of his own travels. The war takes him out of France, with its overripe cynicism, to Germany, the northern lands celebrated in Greek mythology as a realm of clear light and cool reason. The fact that Germany is now controlled by such barbarians as Hitler and Goring rounds out the Hyperborean myth by offering an inevitable opposite...