Word: patriarchally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern History: Cypriots were agitating for enosis or reunion with Greece as early as the 19th century. In 1931 Orthodox priests led a brief revolt, declaring that the Patriarch of Cyprus had proclaimed the end of British rule "because the people will it." Greek Premier Venizelos disowned the revolt, the riots subsided, and two bishops were deported to England...
...conservative, landholding Arcaya family of Venezuela dates back more than four centuries; historians have called their original family seat, a fine colonial residence in Coro, the oldest two-story house in the hemisphere. Snowy-haired patriarch of the family is Pedro Manuel Arcaya, onetime minister to Washington, who at 82 still works in his famed private library (150,000 volumes in ten languages). His sons and nephews are lawyers or professional men, trained in the universities of Spain, Venezuela and the U.S.; his daughters and niece are society figures. One of the lawyers, nephew Ignacio, is also a politician, president...
...Boston newspaper recently decided that it had just the right reviewer for this book: famed patriarch of Boston pols, ex-Mayor James Michael Curley. When he agreed, the paper mailed him a check along with the review copy. Back came the book and check in a few days, with a curt note from the doughty octogenarian: "The matter is in the hands of my attorneys." Reason for his indignation: a strong resemblance between the book's hero, Frank Skeffington, and James Michael Curley. Asked if he considered Skeffington to be a portrait of himself, Curley snapped: "No question about...
...realized what was happening, most of his thick, long beard was gone. The philosopher was Martin Buber, the world's leading Jewish thinker. Today Buber's beard has grown back to its full splendor, and he once more looks like what he is: a modern Jewish patriarch...
...decision owed much to the powerful will of David Ben-Gurion, who, at 69, looks like an Old Testament patriarch with white hair foaming up from each side of his thrusting head. A Zionist and Socialist visionary, a prophet who packs a pistol, Ben-Gurion led the republic for its first six years until, frustrated by party niggling in his coalition, he retired to live in the pioneer settlement of Sde Boker on the southern desert. Eleven months ago he dramatically returned to politics on the eve of elections, hoping to win decisive control of Parliament but achieving only...