Word: patriarchalism
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Kennedy also remains somewhat aloof from his Senate staffers. He almost never goes out with them on social occasions and rarely gets involved in personnel problems. He has a brisk approach to subordinates that he may have inherited from his father. He often tells his staff how the patriarch would have handled a problem. Like Joseph Kennedy, the Senator rarely hands out compliments or credit but is quick to assess blame when something goes wrong. Once he angrily dressed down an aide for not informing his mother that he was going to appear on a TV interview show. After...
...Pope spoke of himself then as a Slavic Pope--a statement which seems to indicate that he is trying to unify Christians in Eastern Europe, Williams said. The Pope may eventually try to go to the Soviet Union as a guest of the patriarch of Moscow, he added
DIED. Stan Kenton, 67, patriarch of progressive jazz; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. When Kenton crashed onto the West Coast jazz scene in 1941, his fortissimo "walls of brass" sound struck some critics as "sheer noise," but his popularity endured long after the demise of swing. He helped introduce Afro-Cuban rhythms to U.S. pop, invented the mellophonium, a trumpet-French horn hybrid, and wed classical music with jazz both in his own dissonant compositions (Artistry in Rhythm) and in unorthodox interpretations of Wagner and Ravel...
Most of the performers are young, though an occasional patriarch emerges, like the banjo-playing retired executive vice president of Filene's department store in Boston. Some are music students or card-carrying professionals. Others are moonlighting (or sunlighting) engineers, carpenters, bookkeepers. Among the assortment on this summer's scene...
...tell you something, though. Don't ever bet," the chattering patriarch spurted, his countenance growing more serious. "Don't ever bet. I've seen people ruined. It'll get you. You're young and you can do better things with your money. It'll ruin you, though. You're not an expert like me, and I wouldn't even touch the stuff...