Word: traditionalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moldy traditionalist is Father James J. A. Troy, Wartime army chaplain, who took over the new and churchless St. Austin's parish in Minneapolis two years ago. He had already built five smalltown, debt-free churches in Iowa, some unconventional but none radically modern. This time he wanted a church that would look as useful as he thought he could make it. To designs submitted by numerous firms, Father Troy had but one answer: "Yes, they are very beautiful, but not my nightmare." Archbishop John Gregory Murray put no stone in his way when the well-known local firm...
This vital and fundamental struggle between the traditional conservatism and the, to Whitman, mystical desire for social reform in the mind of the editor-poet is sharply, forcefully described by Mr. Arvin, who makes of him a dual personality. One part of Whitman is the government clerk, the traditionalist and the conventionalist; the other is the poet who instinctively fears for the future of democracy in an age of money-chasing, corrupt politicians, of oppressed industrial workers. On practically every social and political question, Whitman tends to diverge within himself. He writes paeans on the equality of all human beings...
...From Traditionalist Bagley: In your opinion, should our public schools prepare boys and girls for adult responsibilities through systematic training in such subjects as reading, writing, arithmetic, history and English, requiring mastery of such subjects, and, when necessary, stressing discipline and obedience, with informal learning recognized but regarded as supplementary rather than central...
...Traditionalist Edward Koch and Modernist Edward D. Stone split the honors in their designs for the Ramsey family of Atlanta (income $2,000 to $3,000), Mr. Koch providing a house with charm and Mr. Stone venturing one with imagination...
...going became tough for Tradition in the plans for the Calvert family of Los Angeles (income $3,000 to $4,000), for whom Modernist William Wilson Wurster's graceful patio house out-pointed Traditionalist H. Roy Kelley's "California Colonial." A walkaway for the moderns was provided by Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the Blackbourn family of Minneapolis (income $5,000 to $6,000), which reduced the merit of Royal Barry Wills's design to that of a safe investment. For the Smiths of Wyncote, Pa. (income $10,000 to $12,000), Aymar Embury...