Word: bastion
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...revealed something about our life here at Harvard--this bastion of Establishment liberalism--that in the days that followed, informed public opinion, as gauged by this amateur pulse-taker, swung decidedly in favor of the death penalty. "Kill the mother-fucker" was the gist of the reaction I got from friends and acquaintances. Velma Barfield's victims were one thing, but this...
...pages, Moorcock provides an exotic itinerary, a robust cast of opportunists and scoundrels, and a series of dangerous adventures and sexual escapades. Pyat's first stop on his flight from Bolshevism is Istanbul, a teeming cosmopolis of thieves and whores but also a site idealized as the bastion of a once glorious Christendom. From there, the grotesque innocent moves west through Rome, Paris, New York City and Hollywood...
...Ambassador mentioned only one of her antagonists by name: "I am sure Alexander Haig thought he was going to wipe me out in the first nine months," she said of the former Secretary of State. "He didn't." Her audience applauded. She called foreign policy a "particularly male bastion" and claimed that "there are lots of resistances still to young women in our diplomatic service...
...straw votes within the clubs that they themselves will not elect to admit women, nor necessarily should they. However, as a sophisticated and enlightened institution of higher education, it behooves Harvard to publicly sever ties (centrex phones, access to College alumni lists and steam heat) with this last bastion of male elitism. Since most of the clubs have already begun voluntary replacement of phone and heat services, and many of them have close connections with their alumni on the faculty, such a gesture would be chiefly symbolic; but it is one that is long overdue. The time for university-sanctioned...
...this bastion of high-class learning, living and tax evasion simply uses the color--not the color and the laundry soap--to identify itself on the playing field...