Word: traditionalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peeping warily into the new century, the cultural traditionalist (anyone over the age of 40) feels like saying, with Estragon in Waiting for Godot, "I can't go on like this." He forgets the brave and cheeky response Samuel Beckett, last of the classic modernists, gave to Vladimir: "That's what you think...
Spyridon first alarmed his flock in early 1997, when one of his appointees reassigned seminary staff members who had recommended expelling a priest involved in a homosexual-harassment complaint. Critics claim Spyridon wanted to hush the case up. They also said he was traditionalist and high-handed, espousing monastic beards and ceremonial hats for priests and castigating American touches like female choir participation. When more than 100 priests--including the Rev. Robert Stephanopoulos, a popular Manhattan cleric and George's father--signed a letter criticizing him, he handed Stephanopoulos a de facto demotion. A dissident campaign sprang up, organized...
...favorite riot, funny until it turned fatal, occurred at New York City's Astor Place Theater in May 1849, when factions supporting two rival Shakespearean actors--William Macready, the mincing traditionalist from England, and Edwin Forrest, the obstreperous, furniture-chewing American--became so violent at Macready's performance of Macbeth that the militia was summoned. The militia opened fire, and 22 boisterous theater lovers died...
...journalist. That means two things. One, I'm as much of a free speech absolutist as one can be. Two, I'm a cynic. But, I am also a traditionalist. Like most people, I want to vote for people who believe in things. I have ideals, and my favorite politicians are all idealists...
...WebTV component, however, isn't really for me; I don't like surfing the Net when I'm in my passive, TV-watching mode. And call me a traditionalist, but I think e-mail belongs on a PC in the office, not on the big screen in the living room. By law I still can't get local programming on the satellite dish, although Congress is expected to overturn that ban, possibly at the end of June. What I will never get via satellite is my neighbor's vibra-chair...