Word: traditionalist
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...idea to the Wood Method, which is foreign to all conventional reading philosophy and which seems to violate the bounds of common sense more than the other theories, is that comprehension increases as the reading rate reaches exceptionally high levels. It is true that most traditionalists agree a person will understand better at 350 words per minute than at a rate of 200. But they contend that at more accelerated speeds the comprehension will drop sharply. What is unique about Evelyn Wood's concept is that she has taken the idea of speed - increasing - comprehension and extended it far beyond...
...madly mixing media, a hardy band of painters are quite content to set down their vision of reality with meticulous draftsmanship. Such is George Tooker, 46, who works painstakingly in the 14th century Florentine medium of egg tempera on gesso panels. He is unabashedly proud of being called a traditionalist and a craftsman...
...unsuccessfully resisted both the Democratic-caucus move to strip Powell of his committee chairmanship, and the full House action to take away his seat pending a formal investigation. McCormack's stand particularly irritated young, liberal Congressmen, who have been increasingly unhappy about the Speaker's intractably traditionalist position. What McCormack failed to consider was that many a colleague was under heavy pressure from constituents to chastise the flamboyant Negro Congressman...
...newcomer who gave up a successful career as a concert pianist to conduct socialite cooking classes in his Manhattan apartment and to write the highly regarded Michael Field Cooking School. He is the consulting editor for LIFE'S forthcoming 16-volume series, Foods of the World. An uncompromising traditionalist, Field maintains that "cooks are not creative; they're simply brilliant technicians." Comparing the pianist's task of illuminating a Bach cantata with the task of a cook, he says: "You don't illuminate a souffle-it either rises or it doesn...
...Lawrence Cardinal Shehan invoked another ecclesiastical weapon - the canonical rule of incardination, which binds priests to obey and serve the bishop of the diocese to which they are attached. He used it to curb another kind of forthright priest, Father Gommar De Pauw, founder of the Catholic Traditionalist Movement...