Word: citadel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just one of 17 similar organizations around the country that within hours of the President's speech would confirm their rumored disaffection -- the timing of their crossovers having been quietly coordinated by the Clinton campaign. But these folks were different; they live in Orange County, California, the wealthy citadel of conservative Republicanism that was home to John Wayne, a place, the Duke once joked, where "due process is a bullet...
...Citadel Underground Books...
...symbol, a building can resonate with much greater force in the cultural consciousness; it is like an empty vessel that has been filled with a culturally-endowed meaning. During the occupation of Barcelona by the Bourbons in the eighteenth century, for example, the construction of the Ciutadella (the Citadel of Barcelona) became a hated symbol of Bourbon tyranny...
WHEN FRED COUPLES STROLLS DOWN THE FAIRWAY, he often twirls his golf club as if it were a walking stick. To all appearances, he's out for a languorous constitutional in the park. Last week he strolled the elegant greenness of Augusta National, the citadel of American golf, and won the Masters tournament, his first victory in a major tournament after 12 years as a professional. In so doing, Couples, 32, became the sport's most dominant player...
Since I've mentioned his "citadel of white supremacy" tag, I might as well point out that the way it was quoted out of context in the February 6 Crimson was manipulative and unfair. White people who have tried hard to be sensitive to minority concerns must have found this a bitter and unjustified rebuke. But to be fair to the Black students who clapped when he used that line, however, we should remember when it cropped up. Jeffries was only making the claim that cultural canon in America consistently undervalues the achievements of Black people, and that the universities...