Word: traditionalists
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...costly and ultimately unsuccessful struggle to stave off devaluation of the British pound during the first Wilson government in 1967. At the time, one of his Cabinet colleagues complained: "Jim was a pushover for the treasury mandarins. He simply did not have the intellectual equipment to overrule their traditionalist advice." But Callaghan has a shrewd sense of grass-roots opinion, and in the words of one junior minister, he "knows what the ordinary bloke will wear and not wear." He enjoys more union support than other contenders, keeps a firm hand in the party machinery, and has well-placed supporters...
...identify their cause with the status-anxious "little man," which Rightists from the late Tom Watson to George Wallace have attempted to do. Befitting high-level academics--Daniel Patrick Moynihan is among the contributors to "The American Commonwealth, 1976"--theirs is an elitist rightism. Like John Adams, the traditionalist of colonial days, they seem to have no greater fear than that of King...
...otherwise it was a strategic victory for stand patters, who feared that any participation by the bishops would weaken the power of the College of Cardinals and the Vatican Curia. Another papal move: the assistants who previously accompanied the cardinals into the conclave will henceforth be excluded. However traditionalist, the Pope's decree struck one modern note. Two technicians must check the conclave quarters for "instruments of whatsoever kind for recording, reproduction or transmission of voices and images." In other words, no bugs...
...language seemed innocuous enough: "Equality of rights under law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex." But in recent months, ad hoc groups of traditionalist women sprang up in New York and New Jersey to denounce the proposed state equal rights amendments as antimarriage, anti-family and likely to lead to unisex toilets. Pamphlets emblazoned with the inevitable picture of the gaping shark from Jaws warned that equal rights for women could mean the "ruination of America," and lead to homosexual marriages, loss of widows' benefits and the mass drafting of women into the U.S. armed...
...Bishops had taken against any of its members since 1966, when it assailed the late Bishop James A. Pike of California for "irresponsible" doctrinal statements. In the Portland discussions, some prelates fumed about the "total lawlessness" of their three colleagues. Retired Bishop William Moody of Lexington, Ky., a traditionalist, remarked that if any more women receive illegal ordinations, he would seek permission to bestow holy orders on Secretariat. "We already have parts of the horse," he allowed. "Why not the whole thing?" Before the vote, one of the two rebel prelates present, retired Bishop Edward Welles, 68, of west Missouri...