Word: traditionalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TRADITIONALIST...
...heir to their romantic lost cause. Although the Roman Catholic Carlists supported Franco during the Spanish Civil War, the generalissimo refused to recognize their dynastic claims and subsequently expelled Prince Xavier from the country. In recent years, a family feud between Xavier's sons-Leftist Prince Hugo and Traditionalist Prince Sixto-has divided the Carlist Party. Their father's death is expected to deepen this schism...
...play itself that shines, witty, exhilarating-Stoppard may be the most prolific writer of memorable epigrams in English since Pope. As for the questions he raises, there is something of the Dadaist in him-art for art's sake, and all-and something of an E.M. Forster English traditionalist. But revolutionary potentialities excite him, as they do most of the rest of us most of the time, and this keeps him from sliding into a morass of pity for poor Carr or bourgeois stupidity. Stoppard evidently created the play out of two lines in Richard Ellmann's biography of Joyce...
...missionary order, the Fathers of the Holy Spirit. When the order's general assembly voted a series of reforms, Lefebvre resigned, charging that "democratization" of the church was the work of Satan. Six years ago he founded a seminary at Econe, Switzerland, dedicated to the training of traditionalist priests who would function as though Vatican II had never taken place...
...three of the whitest elephants in the attic of contemporary fiction-and Author Richard Yates, 50, has devoted a tight, pellucid novel to each one. An odd but not inconsiderable literary achievement, particularly in an age so helplessly smitten with the new. Yates' work brands him as a traditionalist in the strictest sense: he is a writer who feels dutybound to tell familiar stories in conventional ways...