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Glenn Close's tender mama gorilla has clearly been to finishing school; Lance Henriksen's massive patriarch must have learned to talk from watching after-school specials: "I said he could stay," he grits, after baby Tarzan gets adopted by his missus, "That doesn't make him my son."
"Nelson," said the patriarch, "whom are we trying to impress?"
The patriarch protects, is good, powerful, wise.
In The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Family , Susan Tifft and Alex Jones describe the arrival of Mary Caperton, later the wife of George Barry Bingham, Sr., into Radcliffe: “In September 1924 Mary climbed aboard a train with Louise Burleigh and set out for Radcliffe.
They featured the grind and humiliation of lower-middle-class family life, and they centered not on the children Bart, Lisa, and Maggie but on the beleaguered patriarch Homer.