Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Archbishop of Manila is in open conflict with the country's Protestant President over population control. The Pope is also laying strategy for the 1995 U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing, which figures to be a replay of Cairo. In June, he plans to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church. John Paul has long spoken of mending the breach between the Roman and Eastern churches that became final in - 1054. The Berlin Wall, put up in 1961, came down 11 years into his papacy; undoing the effects of a millennium may take...
...which in part reflect the times in which they came to maturity. The year John was born, Chester Arthur was President, Disraeli had just died, and Picasso had just been born. In many ways John was a Victorian, and the church in which he rose to be Cardinal-Patriarch of Venice had not changed much since the 16th century. John was perfectly well adjusted to this old-fashioned church, but there were aspects to it he found stifling and frustrating...
...their father as a hero making their relationship seem all the more Freudian. One touching moment comes when Sainte Colombe and his two daughters are giving a recital and Madeline, the oldest girl, eagerly tries to make her father smile while he maintains his mask-like grimace. As a patriarch, teacher and companion, Marielle's Sainte Colombe is a stolid and laconic figure, and it is only through listening to his sounds (played by Jordi Savall), the cries and tears made by his viola, that we get to know...
...Cliburn, the often reclusive but never disputed patriarch of American orchestral piano, swings into Massachusetts on Sunday on the last leg of a historic tour. The concert, at the Great Woods complex at 7:30 p.m., will feature Cliburn's signature piece, Tchaikovksy's Piano Concerto...
...Father Knows Best, which starred Robert Young as that sitcom rarity, a patriarch who wasn't a buffoon, co-producer Jim Jacks has high hopes for the script by novelist Larry McMurtry (Terms of Endearment). "We'll take on real life as it is today," Jacks promises -- or threatens. "It won't be sensational; they're not going to catch Bud at school with an Uzi. But we'll be looking at very serious problems that must be resolved. It won't be as simple as Princess worrying who's going to take her to the prom...