Word: patriarchal
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...China, anything resembling nationhood was understood only in terms of a kind of superfamily, with the Emperor as the patriarch. Ultimately, in the Confucian view, all government was based on virtue. So long as the head of the great Chinese family was virtuous, all was well with the land; but if the country fared ill, it must be because the Emperor had fallen into evil ways and the "mandate of heaven" had been withdrawn. That was the traditional rationale for the periodic rebellions that brought down every Chinese dynasty. Mencius, a revered follower of Confucius, proclaimed the people...
...long-needed, enforceable code of conduct for all. In New York City, save-Powell propaganda was mailed out under cover of stationery bearing the mark, and postal meter cancellation, of Harlem's Powell-ruled HarYou-Act agency, which is financed in part by federal funds. Civil rights Patriarch A. Philip Randolph announced a "summit conference" of Negro leaders to plot a campaign to win back Powell's seat. It could well prove a lost cause...
...stand before Vice President Hubert Humphrey for the swearing-in ceremony. Brooke modestly shook hands with dozens of Senators, including segregationists, met fellow-Republican Freshmen Clifford Hansen of Wyoming, Charles Percy of Illinois and Howard Baker of Tennessee, and took his seat just across the aisle from Georgia Patriarch Richard Russell, leader of the Southern Democrats, who greeted him cordially...
...inexplicably makes no gesture of protest. He still maintains his deadpan cool when his father and brothers propose that Ruth stay on and earn her keep by working for them as a part-time whore. She agrees, her husband leaves, and at play's end the white-maned patriarch of the clan is sobbing at her feet, begging for a kiss...
...Gardner family, which bought out the Yardley's in 1883, carefully kept a ruling majority of the voting stock when the company went public in 1920. Least flattered by the BAT bid: Yardley Chairman T. Lyddon Gardner, 62, second generation of the family to head the firm and patriarch of a third generation coming along the company's ranks. Last week, after huddling with Yardley's bankers, N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Gardner urged stockholders to ignore BAT's tender offer. "We are going into battle," he vowed. "I don't see any connection between tobacco...