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Buried Child. Sam Shepard's saga of primal fears and lusts is shot through with sunbursts of surreal humor. As the dying patriarch, Richard Hamilton casts the blistered shadow of Lear on a blasted prairie heath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: YEAR'S BEST | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...defense the loss of Kevin O'Donaghue and Bobby Fowkes leaves a rather questionable situation. Jackie Hughes remains the All-East, pro-bound patriarch of the backlines. Steady Jim Trainor returns for his fourth season on the varsity, while newcomer Carter and letterman John Dunderdale join him to form the upperclass nucleus. The strength of the supporting cast for Jackie, though, will rely heavily on the play of freshmen Mitch Olson, a bruiser from Minnetonka, Minn., and Alan Litchfield from Scituate...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Hopeful Icemen Open at Dartmouth Tonight | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

...other titles: Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Province of Rome, Sovereign of the Vatican State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreign Pope | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...report on the state-of-the-church in a certain nation that could only have shocked John Paul. Besides, earlier on the day of his death, a Cardinal living in Rome had apparently rebuffed John Paul by refusing to accept appointment as the new Pope's successor as Patriarch of Venice. Such reports suggested that John Paul may quite literally have been shocked to death. Other Vatican sources say that John Paul was overwhelmed by the complexity of the Vatican Curia and that the resulting strain contributed to his sudden death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Light That Left Us Amazed | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...autonomous Romanian Orthodox Church, historically a focus for national identity, is allowed a privileged if not official role in the State: in return, the Patriarch and his fellow bishops acknowledge their part in "building up Socialism," and confine their interests to liturgical and non-political activity. The regime remains one of the tightest and most Stalinist in the Communist world--and it is there that the trade-off lies...

Author: By Gordon Marsden, | Title: The State of Dissent | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

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