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Harvard, the bastion of the Eastern establishment, has always been slow to adopt innovations, and Radcliffe has consistently been treated as something of an afterthought. Radcliffe's founders accepted Harvard's control in return for its high academic quality; but Baker repeatedly quotes past and present Harvard administrators speaking out against higher education for women; she shows again and again that Harvard has been unwilling to change its traditional structure to help women find a place here. The merger-nonmerger position, Baker argues, allows Radcliffe a superficial independence. Radcliffe controls the Radcliffe Institute funds, but effectively washes away responsibilities...
Murdoch's chief bastion of legitimacy is The Australian, his home country's only national newspaper, which he founded in 1964 and refers to as his "flagship." The Australian is a good, solid journal of politics, business and criticism, paying attention to the arts as well as to sports. There is no paper like it in the U.S. Although writing and perceptions are inferior, The Australian is vaguely reminiscent of London's Observer, which Murdoch vainly tried to buy last year as part of his drive for respectability in Britain. Ironically, The Australian has never made money...
Catholic Church and became Pope Germanian I. As a result, the world is essentially Catholic, with the massed forces of the "devilish Turk" held at bay in Constantinople and points south. A lone bastion of Christian heresy remains-the Republic of New England, a broad land stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and peopled chiefly by felons and savages...
Bruno, that bundling bastion of gentlemanly grappling, revealed in a candid expose in Ft. Worth last Tuesday that when he finally throws in the crown and hangs up his multidimensional belt of heroes (for you newlyweds, his men's Worldwide Heavyweight title (he too will take the plunge, scalpelwise...
FRESHMAN UNION--This bastion has not always served students cafeteria-style. Early in the century, the Harvard men were catered to by waitresses. In the late 1940's when the fraternizing between students and waitresses got out of hand, the University revised the catering system and established the current cafteria set-up. Now glass counters, metal trays, and all manner of edibles come between students and servers...