Word: patriarchal
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...John Sirica (69) and Walter Cronkite (56) look and act their age. Surely no one has done more for age than 76-year old Sam Ervin, whose Watergate hearings are a parable of the times. One by one, bright young men who had gone astray filed before the aged patriarch to do penance and seek absolution. Nor was Ervin averse to providing them with a few homilies on conduct. "Ervin embodies wisdom, and he demonstrates that he knows how to cut it," says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer. Teenagers have blossomed out in Sam Ervin T shirts, and Rolling Stone...
...council's members were pleased with the emphasis on liberation struggles. A message of strong support from Demetrios I, the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, reaffirmed Orthodoxy's support for the ecumenical movement but urged it not to be overly preoccupied with "sociopolitical aims." The W.C.C.'s campaign against racism has raised other hackles, too, by blacklisting some 1,000 firms in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand for investing in or trading with South Africa. The W.C.C. itself sold $ 1.5 million worth of holdings in just such firms (out of its $3.5 million portfolio...
...fact that just over half of it owes obedience solely to the Church of Greece. The rest, some 33 dioceses in the "new lands" of northern Greece, which the Greeks won from the Turks more than a half-century ago, still owes a residual loyalty to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Demetrios I. Following tradition, Demetrios wanted the usual quota of Northern representatives in the Synod, picked on the basis of seniority. Instead, Ieronymos engineered the election of younger "men of merit" who backed his own policies, and he ignored geographical criteria for distributing Synod seats...
...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...
...short of his 94th birthday. In the seven decades of work that lay between Edward Steichen's birth in Luxembourg and his death in Connecticut last week, he had become the most justly famous photographer in America: a patriarch in reputation and appearance, with his grizzled pepper-and-salt beard, his short way with bores and fools and his boundless kindness to younger photographers in whom he recognized signs of talent. His was an enormous life, comparable in range to Picasso's; his portrait subjects spanned modern history, from the actress Eleanora Duse and Auguste Rodin to Eleanor...