Word: patriarchal
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...this was the way that Abraham lived, and the historical memory of the Bible says that it was, the patriarch must have found well-populated country in the Negev all the way to Egypt. He traveled there on foot without difficulty. What happened to those inhabitants of the ancient Negev? asked Glueck. He suspected that invaders periodically wiped them out or pushed them back into nomadism, just as in Transjordan...
...Jamaicans made no headlong rush to erase their British past. Coins and currency still bear Queen Elizabeth's likeness, and British-trained civil servants, both white and black, retain a firm grip on important ministries. Spry old Sir Alexander Bustamante, 79, the craggy-faced patriarch of a Premier, preaches patience, order and unswerving friendship with the West...
Moslem Music. At the same time, it raised other problems. They found voice among the Middle Eastern patriarchs of Eastern Rite Catholicism, whose hierarchies are at best weak minorities maintaining delicate balance between antagonistic Jews and Moslems. "If we take the matter up, we shall have to face the music," warned Stephanos I Sidarouss, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria (and neighbor of Nasser...
...Aronson home. His first one-man show drew a drubbing from the Jewish Daily Forward's art critic. Another critic called his seven-toot-long Last Supper, with its disciples writhing as if from indigestion, "a suitable footboard for the devil's bed." Recently a patriarch of the ultraorthodox Hasidim sect paid a visit to Aronson's studio and saw only apostasy. The patriarch's son, a bearded Hasidic rabbi last week came for a second despairing look at the opening of Aronson's latest display of images, graven or otherwise m Manhattan...
...learned to do the hula. Yet, for all his fondness for the old ways, Dillingham probably did more to mold a modern Hawaii than any other man. And when he died last week at 88, the islands mourned the loss of "Uncle Walter," who in a sense had been patriarch to a whole state...