Word: traditionalist
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...Traditionalist graduate boards are yet another barrier to admitting women to the clubs. The alumni generally have control over the clubhouses, and so have the final word on any major policy questions. Needless to say, the alumni tend to be a bit less progressive than their progeny...
...innocent enough. Its themes of homesickness and patriotism clearly appealed to the conservative editors of the overseas edition of the People's Daily, where it appeared two weeks ago: "I miss my distant home/ Never will I give up my aspirations to serve my country." But hidden within these traditionalist sentiments, attributed to Zhu Haihong, a student studying in the U.S., was a subversive message. When the Chinese characters are read diagonally from upper right to lower left, a slap at the country's repressive and unpopular Premier becomes clear: Li Peng must step down to appease the people...
...near 50-year veteran of College life and a scholar of early American literature and culture, Heimert, students and colleagues say, is wholly traditionalist--one of the last, great defenders of Old Harvard...
...tinge of melancholy. They sing bedrock sentiments about home and hearth, loneliness and heartbreak and getting done in by the big time in the big city. "I consider myself % traditional," Black says. "And I'm new, so if I had to call myself something, it would be 'new traditionalist...
...which he has lived. It is a broken man, at least temporarily, who finally calls "Action!" for his film's first sequence, which is the last one in this compelling study of an archetypal character. Especially for those who have pegged Clint Eastwood too quickly as a masculine traditionalist, White Hunter, Black Heart is a movie to conjure with...