Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...construction in the 18th century for fear that it would dwarf the city hall across the way. Up from the gondola landing stands Sculptor Marino Marini's strident Angel of the City (1948), a youth on horseback equipped with a detachable phallus that is respectfully removed whenever the Patriarch of Venice floats by to bless the city. Inside the palazzo, behind a 12-ft., barbed-wire-topped wall, lies more than $2,000,000 worth of modern art works, the lifetime collection of U.S. Expatriate Peggy Guggenheim...
...Patriarch and proprietor of this treasury is Lowe Goldman, who emigrated from Russia about 63 years ago. "I've been in the furniture business about 30 years now," he notes. "I started up where that Chinese restaurant is now. I've had this house about 12 years. Before me the Swedish Society owned it; it must be almost eighty or ninety years...
...Honorable Man. As patriarch of the hacienda, Richard King sported a black beard that reached to the second button of his shirt. "He wore a wide-brimmed black hat strongly reminiscent of rebel cavalry, a black string tie with the knot hidden under the beard and the ends of the rusty silk usually askew. He went shod in the scuffed boots of a cowman no stranger to a corral. It was well known that when the captain appeared with one pants leg in and one pants leg out of his boot tops, the barometer was falling, the storm...
Shocked by the "indecent undress" of foreign tourists, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, 76-year-old Roman Catholic Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, last month advised visiting priests and nuns to stay away from Venice in the summer. "It is," said the cardinal in a circular letter, "an open outrage against natural and Christian morals to wear in the public streets scanty clothing barely tolerable at beaches." In Rome the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano approvingly reprinted Roncalli's letter and added its own objections to foreign tourists who "wear in our cities clothing fit only for their own bedrooms or bathrooms...
...first of the three offerings, The Majesty of the Law, based on a short story by Frank O'Connor, is the tale of a village patriarch who suffers from an excess of pride. It is a feeling often easier to portray by word than to dissect on film. By the time the bearded old curmudgeon (well bellowed by Noel Purcell) presents himself at the local jail to do time for cudgeling an old enemy, the viewer has been made aware several times over that the old boy would rather cut off his beard than pay his ?5 fine...