Few people, having reached a venerable age, are called during their life “quicksilver...” or, even more - “Patriarch...” Well, here he is, one of us and namely Tudor Țopa, who is 90, and fi guratively speaking, is the quicksilver of publicism and the Patriarch of Moldovan journalism. Maybe in present times, we have writers and publicists who are perhaps more subtle and, if you will, more “stylish” than Țopa. However, these other types of qualifying words for homo sapiens – patriarch and quicksilver – specifi cally overlapped his name.