Word: patriarchally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christians and Jews go about their business among ancient ruins, aqueducts, walls and cisterns that are dead relics of Byzantium's glory. But Istanbul's strongest link with the past is very much alive: looming (6 ft.-4 in.), white-bearded Athenagoras I, 67, the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Church...
Soon Rose's job brings her to a Main Line mansion, and the Main Liners parade in their native habitat: Hume's father, a Victorian-minded patriarch who has always acted like a father "and not that odious distortion called a 'pal' "; Hume's mother, a forthright, witty woman with unpredictable ideas whose ironic attitude toward inheritance taxes is: "We'd be better off if we could take the taxes and let the government have the inheritance"; Hume's nephew, who wants a job to prove that, despite his wealth...
This week, 106 years after he wrote them, the words of the great patriarch of the Latter-day Saints came abundantly true. Some, 6,000 Mormons, led by President David O. McKay and ten of the Church's twelve Apostles, assembled atop a Los Angeles hill to lay the cornerstone of the largest (and eleventh) Mormon temple ever built...
Finding a TV drama in Wolfe's torrential prose was not easy. McCleery chose an episode dealing with the last days of a Southern patriarch and the effect of his death on relatives and friends. The story was told mostly in the screen-filling close-ups that have become a McCleery trademark. Actor Thomas Mitchell gave a memorable portrait of the old man "who, knowing that he had often lived badly, was now determined to die well." The show was alive with crosscurrents of affection and hate, small tyranny and big-souled resignation, all set to the orchestration...
...Band Wagon (M-G-M). Ginger may come and Rita may go, but Fred Astaire goes on forever. In this, his 28th cinemusical, the patriarch (54) of hard-shoe goes on right handsomely with the help of a new partner who can fill the shoes-and the nylons-of the best of Astaire's former dancing partners. Cyd Charisse is a sinuously lovely sprout who has elegantly survived the trampling of regiments of chorus boys in a half-dozen movie ballets. Now, with Astaire at the hip, she finally has a full-fledged dancing-and-speaking part, not that...