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...similar ones conducted by the NATO navies a month ago, presupposed that in a NATO-Warsaw Pact conflict, a crucial fighting area would be the Norwegian Sea, between Norway and Iceland. The northern reaches of the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea constitute the Soviet Union's "ocean bastion," where its submarines move freely with their cargo of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles. To prevent NATO'S killer subs and surface submarine hunters from entering the area during a war, the Soviets figure that they must totally control those waters north of the line stretching from Greenland...
...only bastion of pure Id on an extraordinarily neurotic and repressed campus. You'd hardly have to be a literal Freudian to think that this is what the conflict is all about. Paul Attanasio...
There seems to be a debate between those committed feminists who regard the attitudes espoused within the newsletter as something akin to a crime committed by a "bastion of beer swilling misogynists," and Club members, who treat the matter lightly and cannot understand the commotion over such an innocuous thing as a joke, a parody. On one level, of course the newsletter was a joke (crude though it was). Yet one cannot help but sense that the basis of such joking lies in something concrete, in the images of women that are continuously reinforced by advertising, books, television, movies...
...generally quick to deny these allegations, saying all-male clubs are simply a pleasant way of socializing and in no way threaten women. Keating contends that the Pi Eta newsletter was nothing more than a lighthearted parody of the stereotype he says his club has unjustly earned, as a bastion of beer swilling misogynists. Keating strongly objects to this image, which he claims is a "myth" that continues to be passed on from year to year...
...department. Still in Toronto, however, Masson became involved in psychoanalysis, and in a relatively short time managed to climb to some of the highest peaks of the profession. He became close friends with Kurt Eissler, the director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, a vast repository of Freudiana and the bastion of Freudian orthodoxy...