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...bluntness is a reaction to the euphemisms with which the British gentility, whose conduct has always provided rich material for gossip and journalism, long shrouded matters sexual. But much of it is the result of a very real change in respectable middle-class morality, once considered a bastion against the sexual mores of both the upper and lower classes. Illegal abortions are estimated to be running between 100,000 and 200,000 annually; divorce petitions have risen 50% in the last five years to some 42,000 a year; illegitimate births have doubled in a decade and gone...
...were to offer a Nation of the Year award, my vote would go to Israel. For the past 19 years, this bastion of democracy has survived in spite of the Arab commandment "harass thy neighbor." This tiny nation may yet fulfill the Biblical prophecy of being a "light unto all nations." Let's hope the U.A.R. is one of the first to see the light...
...bastion is formidable. Isolated by a bordering ring of mountains and agriculturally self-sufficient, Szechwan has a long tradition of rebellion against central governments. It has often proved a handy retreat for Chinese rulers in trouble, from the Emperor Ming of the 8th century to Chiang Kai-shek in the 1930s. So independent are the Szechwanese, that, as one Chinese proverb has it, "in Szechwan the dogs even bark...
Most people see the Church as the last bastion of tradition and of the good old values, Stendahl said. "Patience is supposed to be the supreme virtue of Christianity." But Jesus, he said, was not a patient man. He was a "pushy...
...three of four articles that don't deal with games, the only really notable one is Tom LaFarge's Ibis-Blot introduction. The Ibis-Blot introduction is the prose found under the masthead, usually two or three incomprehensible paragraphs. The masthead page has always been a bastion of mysterious tradition-who is that smug guy passed out on the keg, anyway? LaFarge has made charming personalities out of the three traditional figures, Ibis, Jester, and Blot. At least we get a hint as to who they are any way they are there. LaFarge has exploited the Castle mystique...