Word: patriarchal
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...feel a distinct sense of translation to a better world. One cause of this is undoubtedly the house itself, with its flowing lines and receptiveness to the landscape. Another is undoubtedly the house's builder. Gracious, mischievous and immaculate at 68, Frank Lloyd Wright has little of the patriarch about him except his fine white hair. His obvious and arrogant courage has the abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau and Whitman. Whether or not that line is still central in U. S. culture, there...
Most Rev. Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, a militant churchman who is considered one of many candidates to be the next Pope. He is Patriarch of Venice, in effect an archbishop but holding an ancient title (like the Patriarchs of Lisbon, the East and West Indies) which stands because no one ever bothered to abolish...
...disrupted for many reasons, but rarely do man and wife separate because of a father-in-law's politics. Ethiopians, however, are different, and last week from his self-exile in Jerusalem the thin-faced, kinky-haired son of Haile Selassie, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, wrote to Patriarch Amba Yoannes XIX of the Coptic Church, in Cairo, petitioning this venerable prelate for a divorce from Princess Holata-Israel, daughter of his father's most powerful chieftain, Ras Seyoum, who capitulated to the Italian invaders during their campaign...
...subject, Edith Louise Potter of Lying-In's staff investigated the family history, presented her findings last week in the Journal oj Heredity. Five generations of the inquiring young woman's family had the abnormal ears-mother, grandfather, great-grandmother, great-great-grand-father. The lop-eared patriarch had 91 descendants, of whom 21 inherited his ears. Everyone affected had both ears affected. In this cup-eared family the earmark skipped no generation. Those who had the defect had a certain number of similar children. But those who escaped, in no case passed on the gene to children...
...after the Patriarch's funeral tension had become so great that the Premier bolted from the capital to Brod where Prince Paul, the chief Regent, was vacationing. In an effort to cause the Premier the maximum embarrassment, the Orthodox Holy Synod this week ordered him back to Belgrade to stand trial with the rest of the "excommunicated" before a Church Court...