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More than any other man Samuel de Champlain helped create Quebec as a bastion of French commitment to the New World. He made 23 perilous voyages from France to Canada in the years just after the turn of the 17th century. He navigated the coast of New England down as far as Cape Cod, and pursued inland lakes and rivers to their sources exploring New France. He could not swim. He never managed to learn any Indian language. He had almost no sex life. But he could digest anything. He was also brave and resourceful, as well as the best...
...comic fans to learn that, on seeing what became of Fritz in the film, Crumb asked to have his name removed from all publicity. Meanwhile, the movie, largely because of Fritz's bathtub scene, got an X rating, something of a coup for the animated cartoon, the last bastion of pudency...
Belford residents are rebelling against tax increases. Last year they surprisingly voted for a Democratic township administration in what has always been a Republican bastion. They also voted down a school bond issue. Last year 200 first, second-and third-grade students were crowded into a 65-year-old red brick elementary school. Then fire authorities threatened to condemn the building's second floor, which has only one wooden staircase and an inadequate fire exit. More than half the pupils were transferred to nearby schools, compounding the crowding problem...
Juicy Imagery. Not that such provocative liturgies are new at St. Clement's. Once a poorly attended High Church bastion, it took on new life in the 1960s under a priest named Sidney Lanier, who suggested turning it into an actors' church and using the sanctuary for weekday performances of the off-Broadway American Place Theater. The American Place troupe now has new quarters, but Monick, Lanier's successor, has continued St. Clement's involvement with the theater. In a 1969 experiment, Monick and Playwright Tom LaBar prepared an environmental Eucharist, a daylong service in which...
Coach Bill McCurdy said last night he expected a Crimson win and added that the squad had been encouraged by its victory over Army. "Last Saturday we withstood the assault of warlike people. We successfully upheld the bastion of intellectualism. We face a similar problem tomorrow: we have to win it for religious freedom...