Word: matriarchic
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...September, Maguire starts teaching political and international ethics at Milwaukee's Marquette University, which already has four former priests on its faculty. But so far Daniel Maguire's long battle is ended only in the ecclesiastical and academic areas. His witty and strong-willed mother, Cassie, 80, matriarch of the Philadelphia Irish family, is willing to admit that the Pope may bow to pressure now and again and let a priest have his way. But she just may take her own good time before granting her dispensation...
...last week with one of the most spectacular parties the capital can remember. Roaming Edward Durell Stone's $66 million marble-and-glass national cultural center were 3,750 paying guests ($100 each; $40 for those under 35). Together they constituted a gallery from Camelot and Nixonian Washington. Matriarch Rose, 80, led the Kennedys, including the Sargent Shrivers, the Stephen Smiths and Pat Kennedy Lawford. Joan Kennedy played piano with Bandleader Peter Duchin. Ethel Kennedy appeared with Singer Andy Williams. President Nixon was represented by David and Julie Eisenhower; they escorted Mamie Eisenhower, whose husband signed a bill authorizing...
...inevitably, arriving at a climax with the absolute Tightness of a folk tale. "Just Like a Tree," the final story in his fine 1968 collection, Bloodline, could serve as the description for all Gaines' work. Making a slow concentric dance around the life and death of a matriarch named Aunt Fe, the story also anticipated Gaines' new novel...
Above the position of "Inner Processean Messenger" is that of "Prophet," one who is preparing to be ordained as a Superior. The Superiors are divided according to function: "Priests" are responsible for the administration of the chapter; "Evangelists" evangelize; the "Matriarch" sees to the spiritual well-being of the chapter. Above them all, concerned not only with running the chapter but also with running and deciding the policy of the Church as a whole, is the "High Master...
...According to an article published this week in The Criminologist, a British professional journal of police science, Jack may have gone uncaught, but his identity was known to Scotland Yard: "He was the heir to power and wealth. His grandmother, who outlived him, was very much the stern Victorian matriarch . . . His father, to whose title he was the heir, was a gay cosmopolitan and did much to improve the status of England internationally...