Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Varela, who has often been spoken of as a possible Salazar successor, left his post amid rumors that he had balked at Salazar's orders to halt the proceedings against the high-level defendants. Though none of Salazar's ministers has so far been identified as a patron of the ring, the scandal has given a highly charged issue to what antigovernment forces there are. Dr. Mario Scares, a prominent opposition lawyer, was arrested last week on charges of spreading malicious gossip abroad after accounts of the scandal appeared in France's Jeune Afrique and the London...
...root out. The Baptists, who appeal to the Russian soul with their fundamentalism, are growing steadily, now have more than 3,000,000 members. Even if its inhabitants rarely attend a religious service, practically every Russian village still celebrates the name day of the local church's patron saint...
...major interfaith symposium at the Lutheran church attached to Amsterdam's Municipal University. Also in Amsterdam, Jesuit Theologian Pieter van Kilsdonk will celebrate the anniversary by presiding over a combined prayer service for Protestants and Catholics in a college chapel dedicated to St. Ignatius Loyola-a patron saint of the Counter-Reformation...
Persian miniaturists who illustrated such tales hundreds of times, practiced their art to such perfection that even today scholars cannot determine whether they used brush or pen. Jewel-like colors were heightened to captivate a patron sultan who had genuine gems. Subject matter was aimed to keep him entertained. To do so, artists indulged exuberant imaginations. The stars shone by day, and daylight prevailed at night. Three men constituted an army, two humps made a range of hills...
...girl who described herself as a model, "because it's worth money." The director was Miss Yoko Ono, 34, a Tokyo-born artist-composer and currently an entrepreneur of happenings in London. The premiere was a benefit for Britain's Institute of Contemporary Arts, a prestigious public patron headed by eminent Art Philosopher Sir Herbert Read. But the point of it all was lost on most Londoners. Sales of the opening-night tickets ($4.20 top) were so slow that many had to be given away. The most appreciative audience response came ten minutes (and 40 rumps) along, when...