Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Heber Manning Wells, 78, first Governor of Utah (1895-1904); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Salt Lake City. Ex-Governor Wells, son of a Mormon patriarch, helped draft Utah's State constitution, helped achieve Utah's Statehood, which had been delayed because of polygamy...
...years ago the first volume of Thomas Mann's extraordinary Biblical novel, Joseph and His Brothers, made U. S. readers aware of the fuller meaning a great imagination could find in a bare, familiar legend. That subtle book of 428 pages retold the Old Testament story of the patriarch Jacob, his wife Rachel, and his sons, particularly his favorite. Joseph...
...proclaimed nationwide martial law, replaced the prefects of Rumanian districts with the local military commanders, and ordered all Rumanian citizens having arms or ammunitions to surrender them to His Majesty's Government. In morning papers, Rumanians read that shortly before dawn the Orthodox Church's venerable Patriarch Miron Cristea, 69, had been sworn in by King Carol, 44, as Premier of what His Majesty was pleased to call a "National Concentration Government...
...feel a distinct sense of translation to a better world. One cause of this is undoubtedly the house itself, with its flowing lines and receptiveness to the landscape. Another is undoubtedly the house's builder. Gracious, mischievous and immaculate at 68, Frank Lloyd Wright has little of the patriarch about him except his fine white hair. His obvious and arrogant courage has the abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau and Whitman. Whether or not that line is still central in U. S. culture, there...
Most Rev. Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, a militant churchman who is considered one of many candidates to be the next Pope. He is Patriarch of Venice, in effect an archbishop but holding an ancient title (like the Patriarchs of Lisbon, the East and West Indies) which stands because no one ever bothered to abolish...