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...excluding women from direct representation in government, the Congress may be safeguarding the last bastion of exclusively male control in the Colonies. Partly because of widespread labor shortages, American women have by now made inroads into virtually every occupation. A survey of local newspapers reveals advertisements by women blacksmiths, gunsmiths, shoemakers, shipwrights, tinworkers, barbers and butchers. The Virginia Gazette recently carried a notice of an arrest of a runaway slave signed by "Mary Lindsey, gaoler" of Henrico County...
Ronalde Locke, a member of CAR, called the Medical School "a bastion of racist ideology," and contended that the United States in "trying to make up for loss of profits" by exploitation of minorities...
...many ways to be ingenious waxwork shows, as relevant to contemporary problems as alchemy or elephant worship. In the eyes of their critics, their appeal is to nostalgia rather than innovation, to complacency rather than initiative. Paul Johnson, biographer of Elizabeth I, argues that "the monarchy is the bastion of the class system. It is very difficult to divorce the monarchical system from the pyramid supporting it, and I suspect the pyramid itself is an extreme embarrassment in the economic and social sense...
That pretense now seems to have been abandoned, and Gujarat's days as a bastion of independence may be numbered...
This year one of the mayor's supposedly ceremonial duties--his role as chairman and ex officio voting member on the Cambridge school committee--looms especially large. The committee, a liberal bastion in the late '60s and '70s, is now split evenly, 3-3, among liberals and independents. At stake with the swing vote are the hiring techniques that the school committee uses: either the patronage system as the independents have favored in the past, or the liberals' system of hiring outside professionals at greater expense. Also, the fate of the alternative school programs, experiments of the liberal-dominated...