Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal "paternalism," Byrd ruled his own domain with a feudalistic hand. It was velvet-gloved, but his Virginia autocracy, known simply as "the Organization," was one of the most powerful the U.S. had ever seen. Year after year, its candidates were elected without opposition. Yet Harry Byrd was more patriarch than demagogue, and his organization gave Virginia vigorously honest, thrifty government for decades...
...dinnertime one December night in 1959, and the patriarch of the clan was ventilating one of his favorite complaints. "No one," said Joe Kennedy, a man worth more than $250 million then as now, "appears to have the slightest concern for how much they spend." The chastened familial silence that greeted this remark was at length broken by one of his sons. Said John F. Kennedy: "We've come to the conclusion that the only solution is to have Dad work harder...
...held down the first chair in Philadelphia and Chicago, won the label "Toscanini's third hand" during the 15 years he played under the great Italian at the NBC Symphony. He moved to Detroit in 1952, where he helped rebuild the orchestra from scratch. A patriarch in baggy pants and sports shirts, Mischakoff is a demanding but amicable leader, prides himself on his collection of shredded manuscripts and broken batons cast aside by the terrible-tempered Toscanini...
...About You? While Jack Kennedy was alive, there was always an amount of kidding about a whole succession of Kennedys occupying the White House. Back in 1959, a newsman decked out as Family Patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy sang this ditty at the satirical Gridiron Club dinner...
...most people, music is a kind of bath to wash in," laments the 83-year-old patriarch of Hungarian music, Zoltan Kodály. "They react with their nerves, not their minds." With saintly dedication to the idea that good music is "the food of the soul," Kodály has labored most of his life to make it understandable as well as enjoyable. To souls nourished on dissonant modern music, Kodály's brand may seem like rather stale strudel. His themes remain resolutely melodic, and his rhythms never stray far from Slavic dances. Still, few 20th...