Word: patriarchalism
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...block to Orthodox growth remains ethnic rivalries, especially between the Russians and the larger, New York-based Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. It does not recognize the self-government granted to the Orthodox Church in America in 1970 by the Orthodox patriarch...
...also provided fresh details of President Park's personal role in the scandal. A former Korean CIA agent and first secretary in the embassy, Kim Sang Keun, discussed two bribery operations, "Ice Mountain" and "White Snow," and implicated President Park -whose own code name, Kim said, was "the Patriarch." Though he had, on orders from the Korean CIA, destroyed the Ice Mountain list of 40 to 50 Congressmen the agency wanted to buy, Kim said he remembered many of the names and had given them to the committee staff. Another embassy defector, Jai Hyon Lee, repeated a now familiar...
That seems to be the idea behind Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," now at the Lyric Stage in Boston. The Hubbards are a juicy enough bunch: the miserly patriarch with a shadowy past; his wife, a religious fanatic; one son who schemes ruthlessly; another who whines and steals; and a daughter who compares unfavorably with Scarlett O'Hara. While Alabama in 1880 isn't a Danish castle, at least it provides a set of usefully poor neighbors and the Ku Klux Klan...
...killing spree-reminiscent of Charles Manson and his "family"-began five years ago in the Baja California community of Los Molinos, 169 miles down the coast from San Diego. There, Ervil's older brother, Joel, patriarch of the Church of the First Born, established a settlement in 1963 as a haven for polygamous Mormons. With Ervil as second in command, the community attracted more than 200 followers, nearly half of whom were excommunicated Mormons (the church banned polygamy...
When now retired Sunday Editor Lester Markel once com plained to Ochs about a steamy double murder the Times was re porting closely, the patriarch explained: "When a tabloid prints it, that's smut. When the Times prints it, that's sociology...