Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the patron had no inkling of their presence, eleven different experts had eleven different meals at Lasserre before reaching their final verdict, which was added to a dossier on the restaurant that dates back to its opening in 1950. The Michelin inspectors are a kind of Palate Guard chosen for their iron digestions, sensitive palates and impeccable integrity. In keeping with the Guide's slogan. Pas de piston, pas de pot de vin (roughly, no pull, no payoffs), they arrive alone and unannounced, sample food and wine, reveal their identities only when they have finished eating...
...attention to his studies. At the end of each day, his pockets would be crammed with tiny sculptures he had carved from chalk and wood. When he was 13, he produced a delicate fawn for one of his father's customers, and it so pleased a local patron that Bourdelle was sent to nearby Toulouse to study...
...other personal treasures. One pyxis dug out of modern Greece's Wall Street contained a bronze mirror and the remains of some cosmetic cream. Most interesting find: a perfectly preserved pyxis showing six of the nine official muses of Greek mythology, and also an almost unknown muse. Choro, patron of the chorus of the Greek theater...
Attacking activity-filled church calendars, the Christian Century recently proposed a "patron of church bulletins": the heretic Pelagius (A.D. ca. 360-420), who believed that man could save himself by his own efforts. Last week these busynesses, selected from Manhattan church bulletins, might have provided an ideal calendar for a mythical St. Pelagius' Church...
European collectors have taken these charmingly unsophisticated mazes to their hearts, but the new affluence has not changed Grim Painter Van Velde. "I am still." says he. "the same lost thing that by the act of painting must reassure itself." Says a Paris friend and patron: "He sleeps, gets up, does his housework, sighs, laments, torments himself, destroys himself, feels remorse, walks, walks a great deal, eats, breathes, laughs, lies on the bed. puts his head in his hands, is lonely, is very lonely...