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...clear that blatant racial discrimination--even here at Harvard, a supposed bastion of tolerance and free-thinking--has not been eliminated. Part of the reason is that while we have been praising ourselves for the civil rights successes of the past 20 years, we have ignored the problems that persist...
When Schlafly was studying in Cambridge, Harvard was still a bastion of conservatism: students at this school favored Dewey in 1948 and voted against FDR four times. The school has moved sharply to the left in the past 40 years, however. Schlafly says Harvard's professors are now out of step with the nation. "There are so many liberals. They have stacked up the faculty with liberals and it's very difficult for a little clique," Schlafly said in an interview last week...
...author's best-known work of fiction is the novel The Light in the Piazza (1960), in which an American mother takes her beautiful retarded daughter to Florence. There the girl is wooed and eventually wed by a local boy. As a bastion of faith, culture and family traditions, that city seems a good place for a helpless young woman, and an evocative locale for a writer...
...court unanimously upheld a New York City law that bans such discrimination at many private clubs. Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington have already passed similar laws. More such ordinances are now expected. Says Donna Lenhoff of the Women's Legal Defense Fund: "The last bastion of white male power will be forced to throw in the towel...
Barrington Moore [a social scholar known for his classic work, The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy]... gave a speech which changed my life. He said protest was nice, but, let's face it, it's not going to accomplish what we need to accomplish. America was a `bastion of reaction the world over...