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...black and mixed-race clergy and by many English-speaking white Christians. But that has had little impact on the dominant Afrikaners. Their three Dutch Reformed churches, especially the large Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (or N.G. Church), have conferred a consistent moral endorsement on racism. "The church was the bastion of white supremacy, especially after the Boer War and the Depression," says Smith...
...reservation, especially the issuing of blasting certificates only to whites, be abolished. Despite a shortage of miners with such certificates, which qualify workers for the best jobs, the government has made no move to enforce the recommendation. Commented the Rand Daily Mail: "Only the mining industry remains [such] a bastion of white privilege...
...their own but from a visiting Spaniard, Juan Fernández y Krohn, 32. Police investigators soon confirmed that Fernández was, as he had appeared to be, a priest-but an archconservative one. He was ordained at the seminary of Ecône in Switzerland, the traditionalist bastion of French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, a diehard opponent of the liberalizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), especially its modernization of the 16th century Latin Mass. Even Lefebvre, however, was not conservative enough for Fernández, who broke with the Ecône faction to join...
Then there was Islamic Iran, a bastion of the Middle Ages in the twentieth century. Among its more notable achievements to date has been the virtual destruction of the Bahai community, by shooting its members and destroying their temples...
...Parker, introduce an add assemblage populating Montgomery between 1918 and 1928. These include the aristocratic Banastre family, whose men patronize Blue Rhonda Latrec and Banana Mac. The younger Banastre roam from Yale Law School to incestuous beds, while their stunning mother. Hortensia, appears to epitomize Montgomery's last dispassionate bastion of social standards. But her frigid facade soon crumbles when she meets a gentle young man half her age, and their affair entangles Montgomery, from its upper echelons to the railroad station's streetwalkers. Because young Hercules is Black, questions of bigotry, race and, eventually, love confront these characters...