Word: patriarchalism
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...well that, whatever adjustments or deceits must inevitably follow, the strange man beside me, more than my husband, owned me." Another steamy Hollywood confession? Indeed, and also another titillating chapter in the ever expanding Kennedy legend. This time the protagonist is not Lady-Killer Jack, but Joseph Sr., family patriarch. In her soon-to-be-published autobiography, Swanson on Swanson, former Movie Queen Gloria Swanson, 81, describes a 1927-29 liaison with the elder Kennedy, a business partner in many of her films. The affair destroyed her marriage to the Marquis de la Falaise, she reports, and nearly ended Kennedy...
...older shepherd Corin, with a voice as flat as Indiana. Jeremy Geidt takes the roles of both dukes, usurper and sylvan exile, by storm: he gives the former a spoiled-child bossiness and, right before the intermission, some stage business that is genius; the latter becomes a flabby, affected patriarch who can't pronounce his "r"s and who jigs off in a trance like some elderly discohopper...
Later, in the seminary building-a former tsarist palace-Pimen, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and head of the Russian Orthodox Church, bestows his blessing in a deep, resounding voice and offers a few words of instruction. The candidates stride forward to receive their diplomas and then bend to kiss the Patriarch's hand. Afterward, new graduates, friends, proud families and church dignitaries, assembled from all over the U.S.S.R., dine on bread, cheese, sausages and potatoes...
Within the church, government control is pervasive. The appointment of every cleric, from Patriarch Pimen on down, must be cleared by the Council for Religious Affairs, a government agency that supervises all religious matters. Under these circumstances, contends Father Michael Meyerson-Aksyonov, a convert to Orthodoxy who tried unsuccessfully to enter a Soviet seminary and is an émigré now living in the U.S., "the priest is not the spiritual or moral leader of the community. He is a performer of rites and nothing more...
...Marxist-ruled but predominantly Christian Ethiopia, the ousted Orthodox Patriarch was jailed in 1976. The general secretary of the Lutheran Church was twice arrested, then abducted in 1979, and has not been heard from since. Believers are forced to worship at dawn before the required Sunday-morning political indoctrination sessions. Some Christians have been tortured and murdered...