Word: patriarchates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andreski does not linger long in generalities; he documents his charges and spares few of the luminaries of social science in the process. For instance, he finds the patriarch of modern sociology, Talcott Parsons, guilty of "monumental muddleheadedness" and of making "the simplest truth appear unfathomably obscure." What particularly riles Andreski about Parsons is his "voluntaristic theory of action," which in essence states that to understand behavior it is necessary to take into account men's wishes, beliefs, resources and decisions. This idea, writes Andreski, represents "an important step in the mental development of mankind, but it must have...
...created a new interest in music by his enthusiasm and energy and unique approach." Georg Solti? "Fantastic dynamics. I seldom go to concerts, but you could not pay me to stay away when Solti comes to New York with the Chicago Symphony." More often, Goodman is a flinty patriarch who seems to live by his own view that the conductor is seen, but the timpanist is heard. Mengelberg? "Very quirky and picky. He would rearrange the orchestra when he guest-conducted and put the percussion all the way in front, and then complain that the brasses were too loud." Dimitri...
...role of Captain Stanhope that an unknown actor named Laurence Olivier astonished London in 1928. The stripling of the West End has become the titan of the modern stage. He excels, yet again, in Long Day's Journey into Night, as the celebrated actor-patriarch of the undisguised O'Neill clan...
...magnificent group of icons" is unwarranted. From the profusion of royal riches in the Moscow Kremlin's Armory Museum (one look and you understand why the Revolution took place) the Soviet exhibition committee selected a bit of pearl-embroidered brocade from the raiment of a Russian Orthodox Patriarch, a pearl-encrusted red velvet boot, and Ivan the Terrible's embroidered saddle. The Armory also has a magnificent collection of bejeweled gold and silver filigree icon casings, spectacular chalices and royal plate. Only a dozen of the least successful, gaudiest pieces are on exhibition--ostentatiously displayed on red velvet enclosed...
Died. Athenagoras I, 86, Ecumenical Patriarch and spiritual leader of some 250 million Eastern Orthodox Christians (see RELIGION...