This once vital tradition was more effective when Protestant values were more dominant in American culture than they are now. (religion-online.org)
To him the far more likely situation was that abstraction was still in an early phase, that its future could hardly be imagined, that its potential might not be realized for decades to come.7 Varnedoe reinforced this view when he wrote, «Abstract art has been with us in one form or another for almost a century now, and has proved to be not only a long - standing crux of cultural debate, but a self - renewing, vital tradition of creativity.» (hammer.ucla.edu)
This country has a long and vital tradition of religious freedom that protects personal beliefs without allowing the imposition of harms on others. (plannedparenthood.org)