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...impressive Liberal tide began building in the four Atlantic provinces, then swept through the traditional Liberal bastion of Quebec, and into the industrial heartland of Ontario. By the time prairie voters turned on television to hear the results from the east, the Liberals had won 144 seats, two more than necessary to control the new House of Commons. From Manitoba west, however, the Liberals managed to win only two seats, thus leaving the country troublesomely divided along strict geographical lines...
...U.S.S.R. China under Mao grew increasingly upset over Soviet "revisionism" in the early 1960s. All Soviet advisers were expelled, and since then relations with Moscow have varied from cool to hostile. Three other Communist countries are no longer dutiful Soviet satellites. Albania, from 1960 through 1978 a xenophobic bastion of Maoism in the Balkans, now scorns Peking, Washington and Moscow alike. Rumania, although economically and militarily tied to the Warsaw Pact, since 1966 has tried to go its own way in diplomatic matters. North Korea tends to play Moscow and Peking against each other, seeking aid from both...
Constitutionally protected grossness-edible underwear, the vibrators in the drugstore window, massage parlors, sex merchandised in its pervasive richness-has spread the pornographic spirit widely. The Twelfth Night Masque, the oldest private subscription ball in Chicago and hitherto a bastion of Midwestern decorum, has suffered a recent rash of crudity. Last year some guests showed up at the ball dressed as hemorrhoids when President Carter was so afflicted; two years before, when the masque theme was "The Father of Our Country," a number of Lake Shore socialites appeared as penises or sperm. No one proposes calling out a SWAT team...
...dire fiscal straits that it was going to have to sell its most famous possession, the Michelangelo Tondo of the Madonna and Child. Now it has been ransomed by the oldest form of modern art, a fact that is rich in historical irony since the Academy was the last bastion of "traditional" art to hold out against the encroachment of modernism. Long after the Museum of Modern Art in New York became a going concern, Royal Academicians like Sir Alfred Munnings were still rising over their port at Academy banquets to denounce Cézanne as a fumbler and Van Gogh...
...occasion does not warrant hysterical outbursts. The NCAA is not the bastion of quality and hardly can it be called a promoter of women's rights. Prior to the AIAW's creation, the NCAA barely recognized the existence of women athletes. And, the NCAA certainly has many other shortcomings, expecially in areas such as Division I football, where the elite member schools would like to think of themselves as professional farm teams rather than institutions of higher education that are interested in promoting athletic competition...