Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brunetiere recommended to Harvard students the following subjects for study and research. First, the differences and similarities between Moliere's style and that of his contemporaries. Second, the relations of Moliere to his faithful patron, Louis XIV. Many questions as to Moliere, he said, are still unanswered...
...brothels,- (z) gambling houses.- (c) The direct voice of woman is necessary to the efficient carrying out of the municipal functions.- (1) She has the care of the family most at heart. (x) The husband is occupied away from the family at work.- (y) He often is a patron of vicious places near his own home.- (z) Municipal evil appeals so strongly to women that their vote would be constantly for purity as against vice and corruption: Testimony of the Govs. of Kas. and Wyo. in W. S. Leaflet, Vol. II, No. 28; Hon. J. S. Clarkson, "How Women Vote...
During the last thirty years of his life his best efforts were devoted to the promotion of art and of higher education. He was a distinguished patron of art and as a connoisseur was widely known in this country and in Europe. He was president of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and by virtue of this office had a place on the board created by statute to pass upon the suitability in point of art of public monuments to be erected in Boston. He was also a collector of paintings and owned some of the finest works...
Elinor was herself a patron of poetry. There is every reason to believe that her court was the resort of all the brilliant men and the poets of the north of France. Fortunately for us it was their delight to take for their theme the novel moral ideals and virtues of the time. The troubadours loved to tell first of all of courtesy as high in the rank of virtues; then of valor, of generosity, of perfect refinement and gentleness. There were other virtues which do not now pass as such. Youth was lauded, age condemned. Without joy, whether active...
...Italian nature, which had received all its classical and biblical instruction from colored object teaching. Painting was the color thought of the people. Every person was an art critic, for all the churches were art schools. Through this whole period of the Renaissance the church was always the greatest patron of art, and three-fourths of all the paintings of the time was done for, and at the command of, the church...