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...remember a few years back, over on Tadmere Hill," recalls John Mach, patriarch of Pawlet, a town in southwest Vermont. "I was going along and I saw a hat in the road. I bent over and picked it up, and there was my old friend Henry Wheeler up to his neck in mud. So I said, 'Henry! Can I help you in any way?' And he said, 'No, that's all right, John. I've still got a horse under...
...power of the later clan--known to some County residents as the "Housing Agency family"--was shaken somewhat in 1967 when its patriarch, then Judge-Executive Willie Kirk, was convicted of embezzling federal funds and sentenced to 20 years in prison. But five months after his conviction Kirk was pardoned by President Nixon and a few years later regained his former post. In the meantime, his wife held the position...
This conclusion rests on a paradox that Wills insists on throughout The Kennedy Imprisonment: power is debilitating, and power as conceived by the Kennedys is especially so. The driven patriarch gave his sons the means and the marching orders to impose themselves on the world: "They need not scramble, or be predators. They would live on the heights to which he lifted them." The result of this freedom, Wills argues, was utter confinement...
...house his sons dream bad dreams, argue politics and fail to escape their preoccupations. Aside from ritual condolences they have no exchanges with the patriarch. They are, at worst, unconscious rebels against his values, but they are entirely lost to the appeal of those values...
...adds that he feels "fortunate to be playing for the Celtics; on some teams everyone's a star, [but] the only star here is him" (pointing cross court to Boston Celtic patriarch Red Auerbach). The general manager and former coach launches into a midday dance along the sidelines of the Boston Garden when M.L. gestures...