Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shorn Trees. The Sussex Ashburn-hams, described in the earlier Burke's as "a family of stupendous antiquity," dating back well before the Norman Conquest, were cut off in the new Burke's without a single pre-Norman ancestor. Sir Fleetwood Ashburnham, 83, present patriarch of the family, was unmoved. "My ancestors," he humphed, "had other things to do during the Conquest than keep their archives straight for Burke's. They were defending England...
...energies are thrown into the struggle for a better world and they like the Sermon on the Mount best when it is translated into free soup kitchens or psychiatric counseling. High on the mountain above them are their theological archenemies, the "orthodox" and the "neo-orthodox"; clustered around their patriarch, Swiss Theologian Karl Earth, they turn their faces firmly upward and preach the Word in their private language; for them the world is hopelessly evil and Christian social reformers hopelessly naive; not men's actions but belief in God's Word can bring salvation...
...there were sirens at the end of the street and a truck bearing a replica of the State House came down Broadway. On the back of the truck, shouting into a microphone, was Roger A. Moore '53, patriarch of the Harvard Young Republican Club. He was extolling the virtues of Senator Nixon. The Senator, along with his wife and state Republican moguls, followed the State House to the speaker's platform in a lush new convertible...
That night at the Harvard Club, a new political party movement was born. Five days later, Colonel Robert McCormick, patriarch of the Chicago Tribune, issued the call on his radio program. Asking "followers of Jefferson and Lincoln to repudiate Truman and Dewey," he accused the backers of General Eisenhower of "supporting socialism in Europe as a prelude to bringing it here." The Colonel urged Americans not to cast a vote for President this year, but to look hopefully toward 1956 and a new party...
...years, dust thickened on the icons in the Russian churches in Palestine. Then in 1941, the Politburo ordered the churches reopened and dusted off the old czarist scheme. All Orthodox prelates in the Middle East were invited on a junket to Moscow to view the installation of Patriarch Alexei, hero of Leningrad...