Word: traditionalist
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...What generation gap?" asks University of Michigan Psychologist Joseph Adelson, who argues that "an overwhelming majority of the young?as many as 80%?tend to be traditionalist in values." Much evidence suggests that youth's politics and passions still largely reflect those of their parents. Even the most radical student protesters tend to act out the ideals of their politically liberal parents, who often approve the goals if not the tactics of their activist children. The biggest gap may be between different groups in the same generation. Collegians who pursue vocational courses like engineering seldom display the Weltschmerz that...
...blockade Haiphong and send Nationalist Chinese troops to Viet Nam. While an ad hoc committee of bishops was working to resolve the California table-grape strike, Lyons castigated both the bishops and the strikers. On matters of doctrine Twin Circle has supported the Pope vociferously, and has reflected traditionalist misgivings about innovations in the Church. Recently it warned darkly of "theological abuses" that might accompany the new Order of Mass...
...poetic voice, but that is not the book's nature or function. It is the poet's mind, not his work, that is on display. Auden's mind, seen through his reading, shows exceptionally broad learning and intellectual tolerance. The man is also quirky, traditionalist and playful with a patrician fondness for the recondite-whether in the lore of language or nature. His compilation belies the term "commonplace" with properly Audenesque irony...
...Democratic primary may force a runoff. This would deprive the feisty little ex-Governor of the big win he needs in order to retain his national clout. But nobody is counting George out yet. Much depends on whether Wallace still evokes the Populist yearnings of traditionalist Alabama. Says State Senator C.C. Torbert: "If they vote with their minds, it will be Brewer; if they vote from their hearts, it will be Wallace...
Otto Piene rejects the "microscopic" tools of the traditionalist-paint, brush, stone. His media are electricity, wind, gas, fire, smoke and movement. "There is one essential difference between Gothic cathedrals and rockets: a cathedral seems to soar, expressing the yearning of its builders to ascend to heaven; a rocket does soar. The same technical difference exists between traditional sculpture and my objects. Mine don't merely express something. They are something...