Word: traditionalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Only four of the five judges wore the traditional tam-o'-shanter caps, but all five were traditionalist enough to get down on their hands & knees to peer and poke at the curlicues of ice shavings. The occasion, solemnified at Indianapolis last week by the undignified postures of the judges: the figure skating tryouts for the U.S. Olympic team...
Year Two of the Bing Regime at the Metropolitan Opera got off to a lively start. Most of the critics cheered the new sets and the Margaret Webster staging for opening night's Aïda. Traditionalist Olin Downes-of the New York Times found the spectacle side "far from either the nature of the drama or of Verdi's score." But the Timesman seemed to be an exception, and even he liked the singing. Moreover, whatever the critics thought, a glittering audience, 3,840 strong, had a fine time...
FRITZ BERG, 50, is the bustling prototype of the smaller German industrialist. Sole owner and boss of seven small metal works, he also heads the German equivalent of the N.A.M. A traditionalist, he fits right into the feudal atmosphere of his home town Altena with its margravial castle (1122) on the heights, its grimy, smoking industries below. Berg was a Nazi Party member from...