Word: traditionalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...illustrating the advantages of what might be termed "planned madness." In Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Doris Lessing suggests that madmen may be mankind's front-running mutants-the pioneers of "inner space," the avant-garde of a superior race to come. Even John Updike, a traditionalist by temperament, includes in his latest novel, Rabbit Redux, the obligatory resident madman, a "Christ of the New Dark Age." And in the background, like the Muse of the '70s, the brilliant, cracked voice of Sylvia Plath sings out her love-hate sonnet to madness, the theme song...
...emphasizes Orthodoxy's basic compatibility with secular learning. Riskin went on to become valedictorian at Yeshiva University. Then, journeying to Israel to attend Hebrew University, he sought out Martin Buber, whose works he had been reading since he was twelve. Riskin found that he had a more traditionalist view of Judaism than the great philosopher. "Buber could not understand a God of Love giving a Law," explains Riskin today. "I respectfully differ. A God who loves must give commands, must be concerned about the way His people live. Buber gave us a theology, but not a lifestyle." Riskin wanted...
...past: the marketplaces of classic lais sez-faire economics. On the other hand, John Connally, the chief of Nixon's new economic world, puts his faith in facts. Says Connally: "Look, unemployment in California is high and yet it doesn't affect wage rates there." Gradually, pragmatist convinced traditionalist that, in Connally's words, "serious structural problems" had interfered with the marketplace, that huge corporations and unions were able to operate outside it by setting their own prices and wages almost with impunity. Thus in deciding to intervene last week on a massive scale against those structural problems, the President...
...swung to the left on many issues, his sexual politics remain fundamentally unchanged. The growth of communal living and the women's liberation movement have not shaken his earlier views on the role of the mother in child care. According to Spock, "Here you'll find me a traditionalist. I'm sure the structure of the family is going to change some more; I know all the weaknesses of family living; I know we don't have a society we can be proud of. But I think up to the age of three a young child needs continuous care...
...traditionalists were too stunned to do anything but sit silently for ten or fifteen seconds. Then, with a scream of "Kill the commies!" irate conservatives rushed the anarchist dissenter. They were blocked by a group of libertarians, and pushing and swinging broke out. The convention dissolved in an uproar, and the libertarian traditionalist split in YAF became irreparable...