Word: patriarchal
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...Honorable Man. As patriarch of the hacienda, Richard King sported a black beard that reached to the second button of his shirt. "He wore a wide-brimmed black hat strongly reminiscent of rebel cavalry, a black string tie with the knot hidden under the beard and the ends of the rusty silk usually askew. He went shod in the scuffed boots of a cowman no stranger to a corral. It was well known that when the captain appeared with one pants leg in and one pants leg out of his boot tops, the barometer was falling, the storm...
Shocked by the "indecent undress" of foreign tourists, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, 76-year-old Roman Catholic Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, last month advised visiting priests and nuns to stay away from Venice in the summer. "It is," said the cardinal in a circular letter, "an open outrage against natural and Christian morals to wear in the public streets scanty clothing barely tolerable at beaches." In Rome the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano approvingly reprinted Roncalli's letter and added its own objections to foreign tourists who "wear in our cities clothing fit only for their own bedrooms or bathrooms...
...first of the three offerings, The Majesty of the Law, based on a short story by Frank O'Connor, is the tale of a village patriarch who suffers from an excess of pride. It is a feeling often easier to portray by word than to dissect on film. By the time the bearded old curmudgeon (well bellowed by Noel Purcell) presents himself at the local jail to do time for cudgeling an old enemy, the viewer has been made aware several times over that the old boy would rather cut off his beard than pay his ?5 fine...
...trio's relationship comes to a head when Lexy decides to make peace with lis father, and invites Josh to join Miri and himself for a summer stay at the family's New York country place. There Josh sees a half-enthralling, half-appalling sight, a patriarch in full possession of his powers, ordering women and children about as if that were the way man was meant to live. Lexy's father confides to [osh his views of American family mores: 'These parents, they live crazy, they divorce, they talk about being nice and they...
Somber Hint. Some of Lord Salisbury's forebodings were soon confirmed. From the Seychelles, black-bearded Patriarch Makarios announced flatly that he was not prepared to negotiate with the British until he was permitted to return to Cyprus, and somberly hinted that EOKA terrorism would be resumed unless Britain lifted the state of emergency and released all Greek Cypriot political prisoners. By implication he also rejected Britain's offer of limited home rule for Cyprus under the British crown. "For the people of Cyprus," he declared, "a democratic and just solution means only the application of self-determination...