Word: traditionalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rouault has a habit of keeping his paintings locked up in his studio for years on end, signing them only when he is sure he cannot improve them by so much as a single stroke of the brush. He thinks of himself as a misunderstood traditionalist in art (his training was both academic and thorough), and he has been heard to complain that the younger modern painters "don't begin at the beginning...
...Campaign. Taylor's passion for telling people about the works of free enterprise has made him the West Coast's prickliest burr in the pants of traditionalist businessmen. Los Angeles-born, he graduated from the University of California (1922) and went to work for an iron company which was later merged into Consolidated Steel Corp. In 1934, when Taylor became Consolidated's president, the company was in the red. He overhauled operations, cleaned out the deadwood and put Consolidated into the black. In 1938, when Los Angeles Union Oil, oldest and second largest West Coast oil company...
...done about it seems to indicate that no adequate substitute to fit the needs of Harvard College has been found. A few courses use term papers, but so few that they hardly presage any large-scale alteration in the system. The unchanging nature of examinations, though perhaps impressive in traditionalist argument, hardly answers the large number of intelligent charges made against them...
...Traditionalist Princeton has never allowed itself to slip out of modern American education's mainstream. Although the College operates for the most part within a framework of custom loving conservatism and the graduate school has not yet assumed significant size, "Princeton" the community is alive with intellectual adventure. There the Institute for Advanced Studies conducts its profound theoretical explorations; across town at headquarters of the Gallup Poll experts from the University's Office of Public Opinion Research provide technical assistance in the delicate process of national pulse-taking...
Damned at once by the Hitlerites as Bolshevist, by the Russians as bourgeois, and by critics in the United States as a lunatic advocate of soulless mechanization, Walter Gropius is today nevertheless the humbly proud Papa of a New Architecture which has tenaciously taken root to challenge traditionalist patterns. A self-exile from Nazi Germany, he trooped to this country with the giant company of expatriate European intellectuals ten years ago and now heads the Department of Architecture. In 1947 only Frank Lloyd Wright and possibly France's Le Corbusier rank ahead of him in the general esteem...