Word: patriarchalism
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...most enthusiastically received work was Tent Meeting, an uproarious portrait of a daffy Southern family: the patriarch, a self- anointed reverend who believes he gets messages directly from God--and who just may be right; a son, a self-aggrandizing deserter from World War II who has a diminishing grasp of reality; a daughter who copes with life's problems by stuffing her ears with an endless supply of cotton wool, then humming loudly; and the daughter's infant child, who is hopelessly deformed yet somehow survives. The action starts with the family's kidnaping of the baby from...
DIED. Michael Redgrave, 77, regal British stage and screen actor, one of the most versatile performers in the great British generation that includes Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud and patriarch of an acting dynasty that numbers his wife Rachel Kempson, daughters Vanessa and Lynn and son Corin; of Parkinson's disease; in Denham, England. Tall and handsome, a superb, cerebral technician with a richly expressive voice, he was less likely to play romantic leads than cool intellectuals or forbidding colonels whose aloof or aristocratic facades fail to conceal the emotions within. On the London stage, he mastered some...
President Gemayel deemed the crisis so serious that he canceled plans to attend the funeral of Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko and began a series of meetings with other Christian leaders, including Maronite Patriarch Antonie Pierre Cardinal Khoraiche. Geagea turned down an invitation to attend. Shortly thereafter, the Syrians began to make their own menacing moves...
John Paul II was the first Pope to worship at Anglicanism's Canterbury Cathedral, the first to preach in a Lutheran church, and the first in a millennium to attend the Eucharist in Istanbul alongside Orthodoxy's Ecumenical Patriarch. But despite these gestures of friendship, substantive progress toward Christian unity has nearly come to a halt during John Paul II's reign. Last week a front-page editorial in the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, seemed to signal that there is no prospect of structural reunion of the churches so long as this Pope's views prevail...
Fedorenko told me what happened next. Mikhail Suslov and Alexei Kosygin were the prime movers against Khrushchev. Suslov seemed satisfied to be the party patriarch and main ideologist. Kosygin was happy to be Chairman of the Council of Ministers and play the major role in both domestic economic and foreign policies. But it was hard for them to agree on who should be First Secretary of the Central Committee...