Word: traditionalist
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...true American traditionalist would look elsewhere for the real foundation of American fashion: at the wrap-around drama of some Bausch & Lomb Ray-Bans, at the democratic perfection of a simple Hanes T shirt. Ideas for American clothes are sketched, smoothed over and sold on Seventh Avenue, but the real inspiration comes from all over the country: from what teenagers wear to cruise Revere Beach outside Boston or the Galleria mall in the San Fernando Valley; from the work clothes of soldiers and astronauts; from the wardrobe tricks of rock stars and artists at gallery openings. Much of what...
...rate cast, a skilled if not always inspired conductor, and a director with strong dramatic ideas about the piece, it must rank as one of the best stagings in recent memory. Objections may be raised about some of Director Nikolaus Lehnhoff's departures from Wagnerian canon in an otherwise traditionalist view of the work. But there can be no disputing the high quality of the vocalism. Since 1976, there has been a director's Ring (Patrice Chereau's Wagner-as-social-revolution) and a conductor's Ring (Sir Georg Solti's at Bayreuth in 1983). Here, at last, a singer...
...based on silence and prayer. However, an experimental charter approved by the Vatican in 1977 allowed more leeway for the 13,000 nuns, who live in 826 convents across 72 nations, with the largest group in Spain. Though four-fifths of these nuns favor the moderate reforms, a strict traditionalist faction has been lobbying against them...
...Vatican takeover was ordered last October by Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli. In a harsh private letter to Father Felipe Sainz de Baranda, superior of the female and male Discalced Carmelites, the Cardinal indicated that Rome would side with the traditionalist minority in the new constitution. Those who dislike the result, Casaroli said, can seek "other forms of consecrated life"--in other words, leave the order...
Progressive sisters are now praying and writing the Vatican to plead for a modernized constitution. The prioress at the convent in the Roxbury section of Boston, Sister Therese, clasps her hands and smiles with confidence as she speaks in hushed tones of the traditionalist campaign. "All we know is that what they are asking is impossible. We're living...