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...this crowd, Travis is the proud traditionalist. He has not redefined country so much as reminded everyone of its truest instincts. "I don't like to hear a country singer doing crossover," he admits. "Young people started turning their radios to hear Alabama and Kenny Rogers, and they began to hear George Strait and Ricky Skaggs." It is not necessary to press Travis' good country manners by asking his candid opinion of Rogers. The performers who command his respect can be heard in the echoes his music stirs: Strait and Skaggs and, especially, George Jones, and, reaching further back...
...classic traditionalist argument against feminism is that there are certain inalienable aspects of womanhood which render moot arguments favoring a strict equality of the sexes. One such facet of feminity, of course, is the woman's ability to carry and give birth to children. This is the one conservatives use to defend their resistance to women leaving the home for the workplace. They argue that the bonds that develop between mother and child know no laws that humans may construct among themselves: "The forces that are at work here are not to be reduced to using the strength and power...
...wanting to be considered a traditionalist, nor to be characterized as having bugbears, I decided that I would resolve the conflict myself. Besides, I didn't feel like waiting for William Safire to come out with the last word on it. Herewith, an amateur's guidelines for using hopefully...
There is the traditionalist ploy. "The tuxedo has always been a man's uniform for night," says Nonnie Moore, fashion director of Gentlemen's Quarterly. "Men are being more businesslike, and the tuxedo is more important than ever...
...Gotti was considered a highflyer and was working for the Gambino ^ family underboss, Aniello Dellacroce, a Mafia traditionalist whom Gotti emulated. He endeared himself to the Gambino family when, in 1973, he took part in the killing of a 6-ft. 4-in. Irishman who had supposedly kidnaped and murdered a nephew of Carlo Gambino's. Gotti pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter and served two years in Green Haven prison...