Word: bastion
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...almost forgotten the atmosphere of a Dead concert, but this solicitation brought back the distinctive flavor. Dead Heads--the band's followers--are a unique and dedicated group, with a language and ritual of their own. They see the Grateful Dead as the last bastion of the Sixties' drug culture. Jerry Garcia, the focal personality of the group, presides as a hip, trollish figure who was there and remembers it when it all happened. Garcia generates the energy of the concert, not with sudden dramatic movement, but with a sparkling liquidity, both in his guitar rills and his cool, mirror...
Welfare State. Goldsmith argues with messianic fervor that Britain, "the last bastion of genuine entrepreneurial capitalism," has strayed too far down the road toward welfare-state egalitarianism and has forgotten excellence, hard work and the need for a talented elite to run things if the economy is not to go smash. Should Britain's economy crash, Goldsmith feels, democracy would expire in the wreckage. Part of the trouble, he believes, is a "cancer in the British press eating away at its guts." This cancer causes the more strident popular journals to attack pillars of the British system from...
Boston never has deserved its reputation of being a bastion of liberalism, Lupo states early in his book--from the start, bigotry and oppression existed side-by-side with more enlightened attitudes. So Bostonians cannot accurately becharged with hypocrisy. And any surprise about Southie's revolt, or the negative feelings in Charlestown, the North End, West Roxbury and Dorchester is based on a misunderstanding of Boston's history and people...
...first rail strike in 17 years, a series of five 24-hour walkouts is scheduled to dramatize labor objections to rising sales taxes. In Italy, unions are threatening to block any further progress on Premier Giulio Andreotti's austerity plan. Even in West Germany, normally a bastion of labor harmony, Trade Union Chief Heinz Oskar Vetter warned that "the honeymoon is over" with the government of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
...crucial contest remained the struggle between black and white in southern Africa. As guerrilla war sputtered across Rhodesia and unrest smoldered on in the black ghettos of South Africa, TIME Senior Editor John Elson spoke with the principal proprietors and policymakers of the continent's white power bastion-South African Prime Minister John Vorster and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Vorster received Elson with Reporter Peter Hawthorne in his 18th-floor office in the Hendrik Verwoerd Building in Cape Town; Smith spoke with Elson and TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs the following day in his sparsely furnished office in downtown...