Word: patriarchalism
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...away is the converted stable that is his meditation hall: after 20 years of study, Matthiessen was, three years ago, formally accredited as a Zen teacher. His Zen name -- Muryo, or Without Boundaries -- seems inspired. For what other Zen-minded patriarch can claim to be a founding editor of the Paris Review? How many other American novelists have written whole books in Caribbean patois that were influenced by the principles of classical Japanese art? How many other New Yorker writers have taken part-Cheyenne mercenaries for their alter egos? And which other scion of America's Eastern ruling class...
...direct warning from China's most cuddly communist was "carefully measured," said a Chinese analyst in Beijing, and proves that reformists and conservatives agree on the issue. "China," said the analyst, "will never give in to Patten's proposals." Time is on China's side, as 1997 quickly approaches. Patriarch Deng Xiaoping has reportedly urged an unbending stance, advising, "Do not fear tension." The colony should brace for more...
...Willie to their ditsy mother Gladyz, a rare drag part shaped with candor rather than cant. He also depicts a surgically handicapped brother who has been shunted away to an institution; a bleach-blond brother in deep denial about everything from his origins to his sexuality; and the clan patriarch, feared by all the others as an epic bully but visible in the final sequence as just a hollow never-was clinging to what's left of his machismo...
ATTORNEYS WHO CONTEND THAT DEMOCRATIC PATRIARCH CLARK CLIFFORD, 85, is too ill to stand trial for his alleged role in the B.C.C.I. scandal could well be right. When Clifford sought heart surgery at the Washington Hospital Center in July, doctors quietly determined that his heart was too weak to withstand an operation. "He has practically no heart muscle left," says a medical source. Clifford was later hospitalized briefly for internal bleeding. His lawyers now plan to ask a New York judge to dismiss the charges against him on the ground that the rigors of a trial could cause a fatal...
...suspiciously similar-looking young men accepted the Biology Prize on behalf of Dr. Cecil Jacobson, "prolific patriarch of sperm banking." Jacobson stood trial this year for using his own sperm in engineering the pregnancies of some of his patients...