Word: patriarchally
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After the Bible. Some of Butler's saints have been eliminated by modern scholarship, shortage of facts or plain obscurity (there is no all-inclusive calendar of Catholic saints). Notable among the additions is St. John Cassian. 5th century patriarch of monasticism, whose work was rated by St. Benedict as, after the Bible, the most suitable reading for Benedictine monks. Butler banned him. presumably for his leanings toward semi-Pelagianism (heretical insistence on man's perfectibility without God's help), but Attwater prefers to call him "anti-Augustinian." Other newcomers are those canonized since Butler...
Manuel Prado, the scholarly, conservative patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family, last week won the presidency of Peru with the help of the country's big, left-wing APRA party. In a five-day unofficial vote count, former President (1939-45) Prado inched steadily ahead of Architect Fernando Belaunde Terry, a young amateur politician whose campaign had suddenly caught fire two weeks before election day; both of them left the government's official candidate, Hernando de Lavalle, far behind. Totals at week's end:* Prado 445,000, Belaunde 404,000, Lavalle...
Droll but proper Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch, 65, only star of the Army-McCarthy hearings to emerge an undisputed hero, more recently a TV commentator, was named "Father of the Year" by an amorphous group called the National Father's Day Committee. Patriarch Welch, sire of two sons, reacted with "delighted astonishment...
National Grange (of the Patrons of Husbandry), Washington, D.C. Patriarch of U.S. farm organizations, counting 875,000 members in 37 states, concentrated in the Northeast (Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Maine) with large outcroppings in the Pacific Northwest. Master: plainspoken, Indiana-born Herschel D. Newsom, 51. Founded in 1867 as a fraternal lodge for farm families, the Grange still holds to some of its secret rituals, goes in less than the other farm organizations for lobbying. It supported this year's farm bill, but generally stands somewhere between the Farm Bureau and the Farmers Union, favors a commodity...
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