Word: traditionalist
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...President has three basic wardrobes: cowboy, country club casual and what is sometimes called "California executive." Though he raised a few traditionalist eyebrows by wearing a restrained-even distinguished-blue-and-red plaid sports jacket on a recent trip to Washington, his generally tweedy coats and dark slacks look smart and comfortable. His business suits, in grays, browns and blues, are skillfully tailored but have a faintly old-fashioned look. One reason is that his broad shoulders and erect posture make his jackets look overly padded...
...that he might have to finish Reagan's term, the widespread expectation that Reagan will retire after four years makes Bush a potential front runner for the Republican presidential nomination in 1984. But Bush knows that he can capitalize on his position only by loyally serving a very traditionalist chief who will probably require him to play the Vice President's classic public role of Invisible Man-and that he can exert influence only by metaphorically, if not literally, whispering into Reagan...
...movement and had always counted on the union leaders, who tend to be nonideological, to keep the party on a comfortable center-socialist course. But this time the unions could not fall in behind him because they were beset by their own left-right split-shop-floor militants vs. traditionalist leaders...
...there was little agreement over a future political system for Afghanistan. Argued Sayad Ahmed Gailani, 45, the strongly pro-Western chief of the relatively new United Islamic Revolutionary Council: "We believe in democracy and modernization, and the majority of Afghans are with us." Countered Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, 32, the fervently traditionalist "Amir" of the long-established Islamic Party: "A pure Islamic system was established 14 centuries ago, and any regime that differs from that ideal is unacceptable." At the end of the loquacious jirga, as such a gathering of tribes is called, the only agreement the squabbling chieftains could reach...
...Council of Churches took what he considered too tolerant a line on abortion and homosexuality, he unilaterally pulled out of it, while The Netherland's six other bishops remained in. Rejecting the curriculum of the Dutch church's five official theological schools, he established a now thriving traditionalist seminary...