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Bronson plays Paul Kersey, who we are supposed to think is a liberal because he was a Conscientious Objector during the Korean War and because he has refused to leave the city, staking his claim on Riverside Drive. Before long, of course, the wild ones invade Paul's domestic bastion and violate his wife and daughter, and then of course the wife dies and the daughter's brain turns to mush and she must go to a convent for the rest of her days...
...Quad is more politically active and socially conscious than the Yard. Feminism remains strong, speakers, discussion groups and meetings are held frequently. The Quad is the only place in the University where a 50-50 male-female ratio predominates. In an institution which has been a male bastion for centuries the preservation of such an arrangement serves as a reminder that women are not a minority...
...suddenly of a heart attack in her palatial home on Sark at the age of 90. During almost five decades of rule over the minuscule (4½ sq. mi.) Channel island, Dame Sibyl had labored to keep the 20th century at bay in what she pridefully called "the last bastion of feudalism in the modern world...
...Howard K. Smith had been the preferred network commentator in the White House, but it was Smith, rather than CBS's Eric Sevareid or NBC'S David Brinkley, who called for Nixon's removal last fall. The Detroit News is a conservative bastion, and its editor Martin Hayden had been on friendly personal terms with Nixon for 25 years; last November the News said Nixon could best serve the nation by resigning. Other papers and editors previously more or less partial to the President?including the Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Times, Omaha World-Herald and William Randolph Hearst...
...Busch-Reisinger, Harvard's Germanic museum, will be showing the work of Josef and Anni Albers through mid-August. The Albers have exceptionally fine modern craftsmen who contributed vastly to the Bauhaus's enduring reputation as the bastion of contemporary design. Josef is represented in the Busch's exhibit by paintings, lithografs, wallpaper and photographs. Anni's work includes weaving samples and textile design paintings...