Word: patriarch
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...spiritual patriarch of more than 110 million members of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alexy II, 79, led his followers for 18 years. Credited with restoring the church in the post-Soviet era, he mended a rift with a rival sect established by Russians who had fled the Soviet Union for the West. In his later years, Alexy was an ardent supporter of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin...
...show broadcast live from Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Center, also known as 30 Rock. There are currently five Lampoon graduates on SNL’s 33-member writing team, which includes all the cast members and producer Lorne Michaels. James M. Downey ’74 is the patriarch of the Lampoon/SNL lineage. After serving as president of the Lampoon in 1973, Downey joined the writing team at SNL in its second season and has continued writing for the show on and off throughout the intervening years, holding the head writer position in the 1980s. Downey says that...
...Achebe came to Harvard to celebrate his novel’s fiftieth anniversary.The novel was one of the first major works to bring Western readers the experience of an African man under colonial rule from an African perspective. It tells the story of the unsympathetic protagonist, Okonkwo, a volatile patriarch who attempts to reassert his status and masculinity against a tide of circumstances out of his control. Achebe’s most extraordinary feat in the novel is his ability to communicate Okonkwo’s poignant experience to Western audiences. But Achebe’s visit to Harvard...
Ever since Josef Fritzl, the authoritarian patriarch of a sprawling family in the north Austrian town of Amstetten, was discovered to have imprisoned his daughter as a sex slave in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, Austria has been locked in an emotional debate over what could cause such a crime. Some have claimed Fritzl's sadism to be a vestige of Nazism's moral corruption, others that the psychological strain of living for years under the threat of nuclear destruction was to blame...
...FLDS was designed to be ruled by one man. "Essentially, every member belonging to the group is trained to look up to the leader, one man, the patriarch," says Marci Hamilton, Yeshiva University law professor, author and expert on cults. "Effectively with Warren in jail there is instability, no leader, no access." In a community that is "bred to be obedient to the nth degree" Jeffs' absence is a destabilizing force, Hamilton says...