Word: tractarian
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Even readers who agree with the parajournalists of Women's Liberation are often embarrassed to find their positions taken with so much self-pity and self-righteousness, with such bloated excesses of tractarian rhetoric. In stark contrast stand the lean, sharp novels of British writers like Edna O'Brien and Margaret Drabble, and American fictionists like Joan Didion...
Women's Lib has produced literary heat, but no warmth-and little humanity. The very person to redress this balance turns out to be no hot-panting tractarian, but rueful Novelist Peter De Vries, who, like Adlai Stevenson and Mark Twain, has suffered from the American assumption that anyone with a sense of humor is not to be taken seriously. De Vries is the most domestic of writers. Except for his masterpiece, The Blood of the Lamb, his literary charades more or less cheerfully present a more or less repetitive series of matrimonial alarums and excursions. The De Vries...
John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is a great Protestant allegory. It is also an allegory of Everyman, and many men have tried to adapt it and make it their own. Antinomians tried to make it even more Calvinist than Bunyan himself. Tractarian scribes, trying to bring the Anglican Church closer to Roman Catholic practices, rewrote it to take out the Reformation sting. A Roman Catholic version appeared with the head of the Virgin Mary (the worship of whom was heresy to Baptist Bunyan) on the title page. Now Dr. Harding, a leader of the Jung school...
Having, in his tractarian zeal for driving home the idea of human responsibility, made the Birlings look like a pack of Victorian villains, Playwright Priestley suddenly begins to backtrack. Perhaps, he suggests, the young girl-whom each Birling had known by a different name-was really a great many different girls. Or perhaps the Birlings' visitor (Thomas Mitchell), who certainly didn't act like a police inspector, wasn't one. Perhaps there had never even been a suicide. Perhaps. . . . In his last 20 minutes, Playwright Priestley has a high old time perhapsing. Unfortunately, he has been prosing...
...other Christian organization fighting Mormonism is evangelistic and tractarian. It is the Utah Gospel Mission of Cleveland, Ohio, Rev-John R. Nutting, Secretary. This work was at first ignored by the Mormons who are now organizing rival meetings and rival drives...
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