Learn what political patronage has looked like in the U.S. Also, learn about the important role that patronage has had in U.S. history and what led...
Patronised: having patronage or clients; patronized. –Commenters didn’t only complain that the awards would be discredited and minorities patronised. Patronising: (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension; arch; superior. –It’s also patronising ...
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage. — Mary McCarthy 13 Power is either vested in kings or it inevitably ends up with ...
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Because museums were closed for an extended amount of time to the public in 2020, they had to get creative on how to engage their followers and patrons. The Getty Museum took advantage of the stay-at-home orders, often considering their patronage of families in need of things to do. They...
In 19th-century Europe, civil service appointment and promotion frequently depended on personal or political favor. Dependency on a superior’s favor led civil servants to ally themselves with liberal public opinion, which was critical of the waste and corruption involved in political patronage. Press...
World War I virtually severed artistic relations between America and Europe. Cultural interchange and patronage was interrupted by problems of social and political urgency, though most artists tended to be antiwar. Visual propaganda was left to the commercial designers and illustrators, while American pa...
True power in the Democratic machine rested not with aldermen but with the committeemen, party officers who led the ward organizations and dispensed the patronage jobs that went with them. The Murder Chicago Didn’t Want to Solve | by Mick Dumke | February 25, 2021 | ProPublica Michigan Rep...
The latestrounds of the debate are now tackling these problems and asking whether thenotion of world literature has been overly complicit in globalization’spoliticaland economic dynamics. (If so, these scholars argue, it is a dead end). In myview, we should not be posing that question until...
More often the actor has been a servant, akin to the household retainer orcourt jester. In classical Rome, for example, actors were slaves or lowly freedmen. InElizabethanEnglandthe actor was nominally the protégé of a powerful courtly patron, but, if he lacked patronage, he was legally con...