Word: patriarchalism
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...February night in 1933, the family gathers to pay birthday tribute to its patriarch, Baron Joachim, head of the vast Von Essenbeck steelworks on the Ruhr. Gathered around the birthday table are Martin, the Baron's deviate grandson (Helmut Berger), an off-again, on-again faggot with an occasional taste for whores and five-year-old girls; Martin's mother Sophie (Ingrid Thulin), a glacial blonde castrator, with her power-hungry lover (Dirk Bogarde); and assorted relatives who reveal such minor personality flaws as criminality, sadism, cowardice, and a timely penchant for Nazism...
...Pope Paul VI visits Holy Land, gives symbolic embrace to Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras...
...life," said the founding father, "is not the money he's made. It's the kind of family he's raised." Joe Kennedy amassed a fortune of some $400 million (see box, p. 23), but he was also an astonishing success as a progenitor. Yet the patriarch's glory was brief. One day last week was the sixth anniversary of John Kennedy's assassination. Another would have been Robert Kennedy's 44th birthday. And on a third, the family gathered to bury Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who died of heart failure...
...patriarch was virtually invisible during the 1960 campaign. But on Jan. 20, 1961, he sat reviewing the inaugural parade with translucent pride beside his son, the 35th President of the U.S. Then the brief realization of his dream began...
Died. Joseph P. Kennedy, 81, patriarch of a star-crossed dynasty (see THE NATION...