Word: patriarchalism
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...crumbling against the new tide of free-market economics championed by Ronald Reagan. Most businessmen see the trend as a key to reviving the economy. But consumer activists see it as a catastrophe and are busily seeking ways to slow it. "Consumers are being ignored," says Ralph Nader, patriarch of the movement. 'This Administration is out to destroy the rule of law as it applies to corporations...
...Cairo, but were repulsed by riot police firing volleys of tear gas. Sadat's political response was equally firm. Late last week, he announced that he would show "no mercy" to Muslim groups involved in the strife and vowed to strip all powers from Pope Shenouda III, 117th Patriarch of the Coptic Church of Egypt...
Thus Hutchinson was indeed the crucial intermediary, the man against whom the patriots could excise their lingering anger against their fathers, yet all the while avoiding any confrontation with the ultimate patriarch, George...
...penned a splendid processional, all pomp and circumference, for Brian Blessed as Old Deuteronomy, the group's sage and patriarch. For Elaine Paige, who was the original West End Evita and here plays a tattered cat of the evening named Grizabella, Lloyd Webber wrote the show's first hit single, a melancholy bolero called Memory...
Buddy (Timothy Shelton), one of the two Talley sons, has been granted a 72-hour leave from the Italian campaign to be with his apparently dying grandfather, the senile patriarch of the clan (Fritz Weaver). Buddy's wife Olive (Patricia Wettig) and his mother (Helen Stenborg) are busy preparing Christmas dinner-to make up for the one Buddy missed in December; and his Aunt Charlotte (Elizabeth Sturges) is sitting by herself, uttering bitter and angry comments about everyone and everything, as usual...