Word: traditionalist
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...only certain thing about war . . . is change. The innovator and the radical may be mistaken part of the time-but the traditionalist is certain to be wrong all of the time. The traditionalist is right in insisting on the permanence of certain elements. . . . But he is merely a fool when he resists experimentation with new weapons and adoption of new tactics...
...Franco, or both. Along the broad, tree-lined Gran Via and the busy Calle de Alcala leading to the Puerta del Sol, from new flagpoles fluttered thousands of the red-&-gold flags, flanked by the emblems of Spain's single Fascist party, the Falange Espanola, and of the traditionalist Requetés. Each pole bore the single word...
Similarly contrasted were speeches on the show's first night by Traditionalist William Adams Delano and Modernist George Howe...
Stocky, broad-palmed, Russian-born Maurice Sterne, now 61, used to tend bar by night in order to study art by day. A traditionalist who yet manages to avoid the academic, Painter Sterne is best at variations on familiar themes, when his assured technique puts down in memorable line and color "a nude here, a head there, whatever catches...
...moldy traditionalist is Father James J. A. Troy, Wartime army chaplain, who took over the new and churchless St. Austin's parish in Minneapolis two years ago. He had already built five smalltown, debt-free churches in Iowa, some unconventional but none radically modern. This time he wanted a church that would look as useful as he thought he could make it. To designs submitted by numerous firms, Father Troy had but one answer: "Yes, they are very beautiful, but not my nightmare." Archbishop John Gregory Murray put no stone in his way when the well-known local firm...