Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frederic A. Gibbs of the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute, who at 43 is a patriarch of U.S. encephalographers, was unimpressed. Said he, scorning a challenge to pit himself against the machine: "The analysis looks like the work of a feeble-minded encephalographer...
...biography of Tolstoy is the picture it gives of the great Russian as a young man. Both of the novels by which he is best remembered were written later: War and Peace in his 30s and Anna Karenina in his 40s. They were not written by the unkempt peasant-patriarch of the last publicized years of Tolstoy's life, but by a rude aristocrat of tremendous energy...
...long silence of worship which began the Meeting, Quaker Patriarch Rufus M. Jones, 83, rose to utter words which must have echoed in the meditations of the many who heard him: "I am thrilled with a sense of joy at something triumphant that has happened toward the end of my long life. . . . My heart is filled with thanksgiving and high rejoicing that we are met as we have met, completely in one spirit, under one Father, as brothers and sisters...
...Communist press of Russia and China cheered, the Soviet consul general in Shanghai rescued from a Chinese jail an Orthodox archbishop who once fought with the Czarist armies, but was absolved last fall when he became a Soviet citizen and declared allegiance to Moscow's Patriarch Alexei, who follows the Kremlin political line. The Chinese who had arrested Archbishop Victor had accused him of helping the Japs. So did some of the anti-Soviet followers of Victor's Shanghai rival, Archbishop John of the Orthodox Church in Exile...
Ancestors & Integrity. To Charles Francis Adams, banker, yachtsman, ex-Secretary of the Navy and the reigning patriarch of the Adams clan, these reminders of the past were not so much landmarks as part & parcel of daily life. Like J. P. Marquand's George Apley, he was neither insensible to change, nor intolerant of it. But nothing had ever moved him to abandon the manners & morals of his New England ancestors-who include two Presidents (John and John Quincy), a famous ambassador (Charles Francis I), authors (Henry and Brooks), bankers, lawyers and scholars...