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Princess Ida is Sullivan's first work as "Sir Arthur," and it focuses on the early struggle surrounding women's education. An "Amazonian bastion of learning" astounds English male-dominated culture in a hilarious comedy between the sexes which, although not one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most famous pieces, is often billed as one of their funniest. Shows are through Sunday night and continue next weekend at the Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Quad...
...Penthouse truly a bastion of solid, investigative journalism...
...debate over political bias in the press is as old as newspapers themselves. For years right-wing critics have complained that the U.S. news media are a bastion of anti-Establishment liberalism, while left-of-centers charge that ownership by corporate conglomerates has turned the country's newspapers and TV networks into profit-hungry servants of the Establishment. Rarely, however, does the debate get down to cases. What would happen, for example, if a radical socialist went to work, politically incognito, for some of the nation's most prestigious newspapers...
THOSE SOUTHERN NIGHTS. Vietnamese officials may not admit it, but Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) has become the country's unofficial winter capital. Virtually the entire 14-man Politburo, including 75-year-old General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh, prefers the balmy climate of the former imperialist bastion to the damp cold of Hanoi, the capital, which is 700 miles to the north. But the old warriors are careful to maintain appearances: when they have to receive foreign ministers and issue government announcements, Politburo members return -- briefly -- to Hanoi...
...feel the Holy Spirit is leading us to the desert before we return home," said Dignity's national president James Bussen, a Chicago management consultant. San Francisco, he declared, "was the last bastion of the liberal wall to fall." Not quite. Detroit, Milwaukee, Portland, Sacramento and San Antonio, at least, still allow Dignity to meet in church, though Rome's pressure on them is sure to grow. A chapter in Dayton also sponsors public Masses, but it has agreed to accept church teaching...