Word: patriarchalism
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...enemy, after all. Furthermore, males who proudly declaim their own "liberation"--meaning their rejection of sexual stereotypes--stumble noticeably between theory and practice, especially when practice involves concrete sacrifices. "Most women find out that a little bit of crying does not root out the deeply embedded patriarch," the Sourcebook comments dryly. This is not to say that men can never be legitimate feminists--a group of men who found a child care center in Tucson, Arizona, do earn the Sourcebook's grudging respect--but the way is certainly long and hard, and rightly...
Legal Buffer. Joseph talks of his "church" as a "legal buffer" against prosecution, but he gets a low rating as a religious patriarch, even from Osteopath Rulon Allred, founder of the polygamous Montana community where Joseph once lived. Says Allred: "He used the doctrine of plural marriage to justify conduct not acceptable to the priesthood." Indeed, Joseph has acquired his 15 wives (who now have five children) rather casually. "I decided to marry Judy after 15 minutes," he says, "and I asked Paulette [age 16] after 29 hours." The obedient wives, most of whom work as waitresses in Joseph...
Benevolent Patriarch. The influence of The Bronx goes deeper in Meany than his reading tastes or his accent, which turns work into "woik" and oil into "erl." He is the benevolent patriarch of a large, Irish-Catholic family, much like the ones he knew while growing up and learning the trade of a plumber. Meany and his wife Eugenia ("Gena"), now 78, have three daughters and 13 grandchildren, all clustered in the Washington area. There is a lingering air of life in exile about the family...
Died. Paul Cardinal Meouchi, 80, Maronite patriarch of Antioch and the Orient; in Bkerke, Lebanon. Spiritual head of 800,000 Maronite-rite Roman Catholics (65,000 of them in the U.S.), Meouchi played a major role in the delicate politics of Lebanese Christians and Moslems. Named bishop of Tyre in 1934 after serving in California, Indiana and Massachusetts parishes, he worked to prevent sectarian conflict, siding with Moslem opposition to Lebanon's Christian President Camille Chamoun in 1958 civil strife and recently supporting Palestinian territorial claims. Meouchi counted Jordan's King Hussein and Egypt's Anwar Sadat...
...Brien recalls that Patriarch Joseph Kennedy told him in 1952 how to keep from being unduly influenced by prestigious people in or out of politics: "Whenever you're dealing with someone important to you, picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear." He watched, appalled, in the early 1950s as both Jack-still on crutches from his back injury-and Ted urged on Bob during a bloody fistfight with a brawny college student whose buddies kept knocking fly balls into the midst of a Kennedy touch-football game in Georgetown. "They had been trained that...