Word: patriarchalism
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...geographical compensation or willful obscurity, even though García Márquez is from a country with a modest literary tradition. The journalist and fiction writer has produced a series of enduring and popular works, including One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975). In them, García Márquez, a great admirer of William Faulkner, has created a kind of tropical Yoknapatawpha County, where "the silence was more ancient, and things were hard to see in the decrepit light." There, jungle folklore blends with Roman Catholicism, humor collides with myth, miracles...
...Jellicles are assembled for a clan ritual. Annually, the revered elder, Old Deuteronomy, played like a benign biblical patriarch by Ken Page, chooses a deserving Jellicle to ascend "up up up past the Russell Hotel, up up up to the Heaviside Layer," and be born again. While this serves as a passing and somewhat pretentious reminder of Eliot's New England transcendentalism, it does not provide the binding plot line that Nunn obviously hoped it would. As it is, the various Eliot cats come on doing star turns as if they were gifted gypsies eager to escape the anonymity...
...leaders of Lebanon's feuding factions rarely come together voluntarily under any circumstances, but such an occasion took place last Wednesday when Bashir Gemayel was buried in his native village of Bikfaya, to the east of Beirut. Only a day or two before, Pierre Gemayel, 77, the family patriarch and founder of the Phalangist Party, had stood with his sons Bashir and Amin to begin what was to have been a weeklong ceremony of receiving well-wishers awaiting the inauguration of Bashir as Lebanon's President. Now, as the trumpets blared and Israeli jet fighters screamed overhead in tribute...
...roots of Hussein's Hashemite dynasty are ancient, dating back to the 5th century patriarch Hashem, great-grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad. But the modern kingdom of Jordan is a recently contrived state with few natural boundaries and almost no tradition of nationalism. After the British wrested Palestine from the Ottoman Empire in World War I, they administered the region as a League of Nations mandate. The British put the territory east of the Jordan River, known as Transjordan, under the local rule of Hussein's grandfather Emir Abdullah. When Abdullah first pitched his tents in Amman...
...symbols that fall as thick and fast as the hailstones of God's wrath. What is one to make, for example, of Cohn's companion on his frail ark: a talking chimpanzee named Buz, after "one of the descendants of Nahor, the brother of Abraham the Patriarch." Granted that Cohn, a former rabbinical student, is given to excesses in biblical name giving, his choice of Buz is scarcely apposite; the chimp is a Christian convert who crosses himself when Cohn reads to him from the Book of Genesis...