Word: patriarchalism
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They had been called together by Athenagoras, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, who (by a tradition that dates back to the schism of Christendom between Rome and Constantinople in 1054) is the "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Modernminded Athenagoras, aware that Orthodoxy must begin to shuck its ancient animosities if it is to carry any weight in the world, had been working for a decade to organize the conference, and perhaps its most important achievement is that it was finally held...
...diary ("The house seemed to rock and reel"). These scratched words were the first of what was to become one of the great avalanches of words in U.S. history. The schoolteacher was John Adams, who became the U.S.'s first Vice President, its second President, and the patriarch of a remarkable clan of statesmen and historians that ranged from his son, John Quincy Adams the sixth President, to Charles Francis Adams,* Secretary of the Navy under President Hoover. In his diary, an autobiography and letters by the hundreds, John Adams chronicled his career, set the firm pattern...
Making a quieter impression than the jazz-blowing defender of his Buddhist faith, Thailand's King Bhumibol, Somdej Phra Ariyawongsalcottayarn Phra Sangharaja, the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, landed in Manhattan last week after junketing austerely across the U.S. Paying typical tourist obeisance to the Himalayan-high Empire State Building, he padded sandal-clad and saffron-robed around the 86th-floor observation platform, noted the artifacts of Western civilization-but few of his flock. "I have seen many people in this country who are interested in Buddhism," commented His Holiness, "but not too many...
...Netherlands in the stiff white ruffs of a Van Dyck painting. Among the bearded divines from the East were the Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira in a brocade cape of gold and scarlet, the Metropolitan of Carthage, and the Most Rev. Nikodim, Archbishop of Yaroslavl and Rostov, representing the Patriarch of Moscow. Anglican bishops came from New York, Gibraltar, Amritsar in the Punjab, Borneo, Jordan, the Sudan and Quincy, Ill. A congregation of 4,000 was waiting for them...
These "judicial activists" are Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justices William O. Douglas, William Brennan and Hugo Black, who, at 75, is their patriarch. Their often-cited guide is the First Amendment, which they hold is clear and absolute: "Congress shall make no law" abridging the freedoms of speech, religion, press and peaceable assembly...