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Sticking point in formation of the Moroccan throne council has been the choice of a "neutral" third member. Both sides have long accepted 1) Mohammed el Mokri, the 108-year-old Grand Vizier, as representative of the traditionalist supporters of ex-Sultan Ben Arafa, and 2) Si M'Barek ben Mustapha el Bekkai, 48-year-old idol of Moroccan nationalists, as representative of ex-Sultan Ben Youssef. But French colonists feared the influence of Si Bekkai, whom they regarded as a dangerous extremist. Final solution was to dilute Si Bekkai's influence by adding...
Franklin Watkins, who teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is an older type of traditionalist. His Solitaire echoes in its modest way the efforts of such masters as Toulouse-Lautrec and such titans as Tintoretto. Combining human pathos and delightful paint, quality, the picture follows the ancient though rarely stated rule of appealing to laymen and artists equally...
Pony Boy. If George Humphrey were just a traditionalist he probably would now be the best known and most prosperous lawyer in mid-Michigan. George was born in 1890 in Cheboygan and raised in Saginaw, where his father, Watts Humphrey, was a hearty, roaring trial lawyer with an excellent practice. His mother, a former schoolteacher, was a wise and gentle parent and a political diehard (all through the New Deal she spelled Roosevelt with a small...
These frog-based problems ought to cause anxiety only in "traditionalist minds . . . All increase in human capabilities complicates the moral life . . . Let us beware, however, of ever reproaching science for the difficulties it has created for us. It is not recent news that living is more arduous for an adult than for a child." Dr. Rostand is no child, and his frogs are no tadpoles...
...case one of the clues to what he is driving at is knowledge of what he was driven by. When Critic Barnard is not busy unraveling the poet's knottier lines, he sees Robinson pretty much the way Robinson eventually saw himself: as an "idealist" in philosophy, a traditionalist in verse form, a liberal humanist in spirit...