Word: patriarchalism
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...Every Chinese knows that without Chairman Mao, there would have been no new China . . . We must not exaggerate his mistakes. If we do, we will be slandering [him] as well as our party and state ... [However,] he acted as a patriarch. He never wanted to know the ideas of the others, no matter how right they could be. He never wanted to hear opinions different from his. He really behaved in an unhealthy, feudal...
That may sound like a great deal of money. But there were, after all, 74 direct living descendants of John D. Jr., son of the patriarch, at last count. While none of them are pleading poverty, they all need a little extra cash for their various philanthropies, not to mention living expenses...
...ordinary ways of life clear and uncommonly affecting. Take Dorsey, for example. He combines a holy man's zeal, a performer's ego and a revered older man's self-contentment, and the film's portrait of him becomes a little essay on the patriarch as enigma. Or consider Delois Barrett Campbell. Onstage she is a shatteringly forceful singer. Off stage she is married to the minister of a humble church who has trouble understanding the ambition that must lie behind a talent as large as hers. Like any wife whose career has outstripped her husband...
...granted to the hipster to grow old gracefully," Mailer wrote in his middle 30s, and there certainly did not, at the time, appear to be a silver-haired patriarch in the author's future. Mailer is now a proud, picture-packing papa, ready to draw his wallet at the least provocation. The walls of the Brooklyn apartment are covered with photographs of the eight Mailer children; mixed in is an old-fashioned studio shot of little Norman, a well-scrubbed tot with jug ears and a mischievous smile. Mailer's and Norris' son, John Buffalo, 5, lives...
...voting patterns so far show that a majority of Southern Presbyterians basically agree with the Rev. John M. Miller of Hilton Head Island, S.C., who argues that opposition to merger now is "a feudal expression of longing for a past that can never be." Adds Richards, 80, a patriarch of the Southern denomination: "The church is under attack in so many quarters that we can't be divided. We've got to sacrifice the things that aren't essential in order to get together." -By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by B.J. Phillips/Atlanta