Word: matriarchic
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...Constantine, foolish male, has apparently never read The Golden Bough. He keeps poking into the secrets of Cornwall Coombe until the full moon at harvest time. He is in deeper trouble than he knows. "They call it the Moon of No Repentance around here," says the local matriarch. "Come harvest, you take what there is - too late for repentance . . . there are some hereabouts who don't take kindly to a man who makes fun at our ways...
...first novel since The Ordways, William Humphrey has remained true to the once effective formula for the Southern novel-using the Southern family to melodramatize the passing of a way of life through the death of the elder. Only in this instance it is not a dying patriarch, but matriarch-not a Big Daddy but a Big Mommy...
...have place at all," Bernice Reagon 'Matriarch Blues...
FRIDAY: The Homecoming. A simple but effective Christmas drama with Patricia Neal as the matriarch of a Virginia family struggling to endure the Depression. Based on Earl Hamner Jr.'s autobiographical novel. CH. 7, 9 p.m. Color...
...drug war began bizarrely when 31-year-old Refugio Reyes Pruneda gunned down a Mexican federal police agent and his aide in a Nuevo Laredo restaurant. Simona Pruneda de Reyes, the 72-year-old matriarch of the clan, reacted sharply to the unwanted publicity; with the help of another son, she tied Refugio's arms and legs to stakes driven into the earth of their farmyard, then left him there for two days in temperatures that often rose above...