Word: bastion
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...Crimson, normally a bastion of liberalism, fail to back Adlai Stevenson, one of the most respected liberal politicians of his time? Why, instead, did it choose to endorse a comic strip character? Was it all just a joke...
...Bell wrote that the tenure debate was fueled by a fear of the threat that diversity poses to the traditional order at the Law School. "To counter that threat, diversity is to be patronized, not protected, and tenure--the policy intended to protect academic freedom--is made a bastion for the status quo," he wrote...
...MANY PEOPLE, CLASSICAL MUSIC is an enigma, a vast world of high-sounding ideals and mystifying terminology. Because it is perceived as a bastion of snobbery and because it is complicated, classical music has a limited audience. As the works of many contemporary composers are inaccessible, and since orchestras incessantly perform the same repertoire, classical music has in recent decades stagnated into glorifying the past...
...siecle is the natural time for summation. But it already seems clear that the Royal Academy (only 30 years ago the last bastion of peevish misunderstanding of modernism) is stealing quite a march on its competitors. The subject of modern British art has never been tried in depth by an American museum. And no matter what quibbles and demurrals one may have about the choice of this work or that name, the Royal Academy has done a wonderful job. No one with half an eye could spend a couple of hours in Burlington House and leave without asking...
...proud last week. By allowing William K. Coors, the controversial chairman of the Adolph Coors Brewing Company, to address and defend himself before a filled Science Center lecture hall, students in general and campus activists in particular went a long way toward repairing Harvard's damaged reputation as a bastion of free speech and an exemplar of the open exchange of ideas...