Word: traditionalist
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...augment the pure velocity of his arm, Bench has trained himself to do two things: catch the ball with one hand, and cock and fire from a crouch. Originally Bench was a traditionalist; he caught the ball with his left and covered it with his right. Taking the cue from the older Hundley, Bench switched to a hinged catcher's mitt that enabled him to snare a pitch with one hand and thus keep his right hand free -from harm, as well as to throw more quickly. Then he practiced for hour upon hour transferring the ball swiftly from...
...Pentateuch, you dropped the idea of revelation altogether." But the consensus of the Covenant theologians is that God does reveal himself to man, and that he has, in one way or another, established some kind of special covenant with the Jews. For the traditionalist, that may mean the literal, biblical Covenant first made by God with the patriarchs?Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?and later confirmed with the Hebrew people as a whole at Sinai. For others it may mean a more existential relationship, perhaps with a less personal...
...illustrating the advantages of what might be termed "planned madness." In Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Doris Lessing suggests that madmen may be mankind's front-running mutants-the pioneers of "inner space," the avant-garde of a superior race to come. Even John Updike, a traditionalist by temperament, includes in his latest novel, Rabbit Redux, the obligatory resident madman, a "Christ of the New Dark Age." And in the background, like the Muse of the '70s, the brilliant, cracked voice of Sylvia Plath sings out her love-hate sonnet to madness, the theme song...
...emphasizes Orthodoxy's basic compatibility with secular learning. Riskin went on to become valedictorian at Yeshiva University. Then, journeying to Israel to attend Hebrew University, he sought out Martin Buber, whose works he had been reading since he was twelve. Riskin found that he had a more traditionalist view of Judaism than the great philosopher. "Buber could not understand a God of Love giving a Law," explains Riskin today. "I respectfully differ. A God who loves must give commands, must be concerned about the way His people live. Buber gave us a theology, but not a lifestyle." Riskin wanted...
...past: the marketplaces of classic lais sez-faire economics. On the other hand, John Connally, the chief of Nixon's new economic world, puts his faith in facts. Says Connally: "Look, unemployment in California is high and yet it doesn't affect wage rates there." Gradually, pragmatist convinced traditionalist that, in Connally's words, "serious structural problems" had interfered with the marketplace, that huge corporations and unions were able to operate outside it by setting their own prices and wages almost with impunity. Thus in deciding to intervene last week on a massive scale against those structural problems, the President...