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...Bastion. The key to Krol's style is the big Archdiocese of Philadelphia, which is to the church what Mayor Daley's Chicago is to the Democratic Party: a bastion of strength and discipline in the midst of turmoil. Priestly dissent is rare. The huge parochial school system remains intact, with remarkably low tuitions (after Pennsylvania's grants to private schools were banned by the U.S. Supreme Court, the state legislature voted $47 million a year in "voucher" aid to parents of private school pupils). This fall Krol capped a decade of construction costing $120 million...
Harvard Yard, a male bastion for the last 335 years, may soon follow the Houses and admit women to its ivycovered dorms...
...Philby's office nowadays is located in KGB headquarters in the midst of Moscow, across Dzerzhinsky Square from a children's department store and round the corner from a huge book shop. No sign or flag indicates that it is the bastion of the Soviet secret police. In front of it stands the giant statue of the first Soviet secret policeman, Feliks E. Dzerzhinsky, who ran the police until his death in 1926. In the same building is dank Lubyanka prison, where political prisoners undergo their initial conditioning; in his novel The First Circle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote how its warders...
...submit that if the U.S. can tolerate a Communist dictatorship 90 miles from its shores, Chairman Mao and his countrymen can coexist with a non-Communist Taiwan, which, although it doesn't meet our standards of democracy, is a veritable bastion of freedom and individual opportunity compared with mainland China...
...revolution in the stiffly cartelized world of Japanese retailing. The country has 1.2 million mostly tiny stores, many of which cooperate in keeping prices high enough to enable all to stay in business. "Even our barbers and laundries have self-protective cartels," complains Nakauchi. He supports Mao's "bastion of iron" principle, which he interprets to mean that the masses (i.e., consumers) should be kings, and the retailer should serve them by selling at the lowest possible prices...