Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago seven monks of the monastery of Deir-el-Moharrak, on the edge of the desert near Assiut, rebelled because they received only $1.50 per month for pocket money. Bearded Auba Yoanes XIX, Patriarch of Egypt's ancient Coptic Church, excommunicated the seven, then pardoned them while their abbot raised their allowance to $7.50 per month. On this the monks grew merrier & merrier, saving up their money for uproarious nights in nearby Bedouin and Moslem villages. Such a nuisance became the Copts that the villagers told Abbot Sidarous to keep his men at home, else they would...
Unimpressed by threats, the monks last week deposed Abbot Sidarous, elected from their midst a new abbot who would not only condone but join in their nights of fun. At once Patriarch Yoanes threatened to excommunicate all 100 monks, commanded them to vacate the monastery. They "sat down," and by the time a commission representing the Patriarch arrived, the monks had dug themselves in for a siege. Deir-el-Moharrak, 14 centuries old, has heavy 15-ft. walls, is accessible only by means of a drawbridge to an adjacent building. Within it are live cattle, fresh wells, well-stocked larders...
...week it was handed over by retiring William Hamilton Gibson to a fourth educator who can well preserve its austere tradition: Rev. Tertius van Dyke, Headmaster Gibson's brother-in-law, the pastor of Washington's Congregational Church, son of Princeton's late beloved little literary patriarch, Dr. Henry van Dyke...
...Abdul Medjid II" and a ripe 17 was his beauteous daughter Princess Dur-e-Shawar in 1931. Beauteous too was his niece the Sultana Nilofar Hanim, great-granddaughter of Turkish Sultan Murad V. Best of all, the Caliph had no son and his hoary beard was that of a Patriarch unlikely to become again a father. At the death of this pope of Islam, therefore, pious believers would look upon the offspring of his daughter perhaps not as an orthodox and regular Caliph but certainly with utmost reverence in the absence of any other Caliph. Obviously the two pretty girls...
...makes Dancer Hans Zuellig seem all the more lonely when he loses his girl to a silk-hatted libertine. For The Prodigal Son, the one ballet to have its U. S. premiere last week, Choreographer Jooss went back to the old Biblical legend, cast himself as the square-bearded patriarch, Elsa Kahl as the mother, muscular Rudolf Pescht as the wandering son. Result was not another Green Table, but a ballet with spots that were powerful, spots that were not. The sirens Pescht meets on his philanderings contribute little to the modern dance. On the other hand, his homecoming...