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Kennedy, according to the Times, is considered something of a traditionalist by his associates," and at first opposed the idea of the change from Latin to English. Bundy, however, "convinced the President that the change would be good" because "all students understand English," the Times stated...
...were shocked yesterday to learn that their own McGeorge Bundy had betrayed them. The Times story related how a zealous Bundy had persuaded a reluctant President Kennedy that Harvard diplomas ought to be in English. His shrewd argument--"all students understand English"--was reported to have overcome Kennedy's "traditionalist" objections...
...times, suffered a clout on the back of the neck during a 1928 freedom demonstration that partially disabled him for life with trembling head and limbs. He became Nehru's "tower of strength" during such later crises as Kashmir, though he remained a political conservative and a religious traditionalist in contrast to Nehru's socialistic agnosticism...
...foremost novelist of the neo-traditionalist school of English letters told his audience in Burr Hall yesterday to watch "those novelists who are trying to do something different...
...called "Africa's year," Essien U. Eissien-Udom, teaching fellow in Government, views the emergence of his native continent with a pan-african visionary's zeal tinged by a natural skepticism for politicians and a deeply felt attachment to traditional, but passing, customs. He is, as he says, "a traditionalist and a modernist...