Word: patriarch
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...hemisphere and was second only to North Korea's Kim Il Sung as the world's most durable dictator. After sweeping to power in a military coup in 1954, Stroessner nominated himself President, then engineered his pro forma re-election seven times. Despite sporadic challenges to his rule, the patriarch faced no serious opposition. Unlike many countries in the Americas, landlocked Paraguay has no tradition of democracy...
This seems to portend more than what follows, which is a long, fairly routine mini-series of a novel. Without appearing to have much on his mind, the author follows the adventures of three families -- one Welsh, one Russian- American, one Jewish-English -- through three wars. The founding patriarch is a young ship's cook, a Welshman named David Jones, first seen surviving the sinking of the Titanic. He meets and marries a beautiful Russian immigrant named Ludmila in New York City, resettles in England, volunteers for the army, is mistakenly reported dead in World...
Gustave Courbet has been seen for most of this century as the patriarch of the avant-garde ideal, a man both embodying his time and working in defiance of bourgeois taste: in short, a hero. He was born in 1819 the son of a farmer, lived as a socialist, and died in 1877 exiled in Switzerland, his paintings deemed unexhibitable in France on political grounds. In the end, Courbet was financially crushed by a judgment imposed on him by the French government of more than 300 million francs -- precisely the cost of re-erecting the Vendome Column, the imperial symbol...
...spacious, Spanish-style house comes complete with a pool, patio, rose garden and prison-provided meal service. The government obviously hopes to loosen the restraints on Mandela, 70, so slowly that a final release will seem anticlimactic. Pretoria said it will allow Mandela's family "unlimited access" to the patriarch of the banned African National Congress. Mandela's wife Winnie rejected the offer, saying she "does not intend to take more than the 40-minute visits allowed in the past until all political prisoners are given the same privileges." As he has since 1962, Nelson Mandela remains a prisoner...
...ordered historic Manger Square to be bare of the usual tinsel and twinkling lights. The city is also canceling the annual Boy Scout parade and its reception for visiting dignitaries. Moreover, many citizens say they are too dispirited this year to hold their customary family celebrations. The new Latin patriarch Michel Sabbah, a pointed critic of Israel's policy toward Arab residents, will still lead the centuries-old procession across the square for midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity. But, all in all, says Roman Catholic Deputy Mayor Hanna Nasser, "it is a very sad Christmas...