Word: patriarchates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When now retired Sunday Editor Lester Markel once com plained to Ochs about a steamy double murder the Times was re porting closely, the patriarch explained: "When a tabloid prints it, that's smut. When the Times prints it, that's sociology...
...roaring lion is Bill Monroe, 65, the patriarch of bluegrass music for more than three decades. The setting is Bean Blossom, Ind. (pop. 200), a hilly, country village where Monroe has now staged eleven annual bluegrass festivals. The fiddlers, pickers and fans at Bean Blossom are part of a steadily growing phenomenon. Before the year is out, some 500 bluegrass festivals will lure countless thousands of Americans to county fairgrounds, college campuses and places like Cumberland, Ky., Spruce Pine, N.C., and Grass Valley, Calif...
...Fading Patriarch. In his office, George Steinbrenner, a volatile, charming hustler, who is principal owner of the Yankees, looked as pained as if someone had punched him in the wallet. "I buy advertising in the New York papers," he said, "and I know how expensive that is. One way to look at the newspapermen's stories is that they're free space. So the question is: How do we use the free space?-and the answer is not well lately...
...fashioned baseball writing concentrated on such issues. Was the manager a sour drunk? Was the superslugger a tightwad? No matter. Write only about the games. Emotion, indeed humanity, was irrelevant. You can read a season of sports pages from 1951 without learning anything of the interplay between the fading patriarch (DiMaggio) and the bucolic Wunderkind (Mantle...
...puke, Shapiro grinned weakly, very weakly, and said, "It's all right sir--the white wine came up with the fish." When he came back from the restroom after cleaning up as best he could, he found...-nobody. The bill was paid; DuPont had even left a tip. The patriarch came, saw, and spirited away his little family as fast as possible. The young man had vomited on his wife. There was a little note left on a silver tray. It read simply, for DuPont was not an eduducated man, and no stylist...