Word: patronizing
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...series-produced by RAI, the Italian national television company that aired it in Italy last fall -never resolves the hard choice between truth and drama. This week's episode opened with the death of Leonardo in the arms of France's King Francis I, the patron of the artist's declining years. Creaky and inspirational, the scene at least has a style that might grow on a sympathetic viewer. Alas, hardly has Leonardo expired when a young "guide" in a modern business suit comes on camera, pointing out that the scene is pure fiction, lifted from admiring...
...Rome, 2,000 happy hairdressers gathered for an audience with Pope Paul VI heard kind words for their profession and their patron saint, the 17th century Peruvian mulatto St. Martin de Porres, who had once been apprenticed to a barber. St. Martin, said the Pope, was "an example to imitate, an encouragement to bring to your profession willingness and helpfulness." Hairdressing, concluded the Pope, offers "abundant opportunities to help many people recognize the goodness...
...wide range of companies, with their addresses, to whom the complainer is advised to address his complaint (the theory being that the complainer gets more action if he goes right to the top). But in this day of the form reply, that advice can be dubious. One unhappy patron who discovered bedbugs in his hotel bed and complained bitterly in writing to the company received a mollifying reply to which had been attached, accidentally, a scribbled note from some executive to his secretary that said: "Alice, send this guy the bedbug letter...
Died. Helen G. Bonfils, 82, board chairman of the Denver Post, sometime actress and patron of the theater; in Denver. The younger daughter of Frederick G. Bonfils, colorful co-owner of the Post with Harry Tammen, "Miss Helen" was proprietor and principal stockholder of the largest and most important paper in the Rocky Mountain states for nearly four decades. She took time out from her publishing duties occasionally for appearances on the Denver and New York stages, but her more important theatrical role was that of angel and producer...
...apply the Graustein formula "flexibly." If a department has a chance to pick up a hotshot professor, it can borrow ahead on its Graustein number and get him while he's available, even if the next scheduled appointment in the department is several months or years hence. If a patron donates endowed chairs to a specific department, or if a particular field grows rapidly, the Dean has two options. He can bring in new professors "above the line," and change the department's Graustein number. Or he can make "below the line" appointments, hiring a few extra people and post...