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...Olympia (see BOOKS), they carried with them the proclamation of a sacred truce that extended for at least a month before and after the Olympics. Since the Games of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal have already become an arena of international acrimony second only to that other supposed citadel of world harmony, the United Nations, the time is ripe for a modern equivalent, however profane, of the sacred truce...
...biographer, but in this, too, he was to be disappointed. He told Kearns that she reminded him of his mother, and so he unburdened himself of dreams, ambitions and regrets that he had confided, apparently, to no one else. He hoped that she would salvage his reputation at Harvard, citadel of real and imagined enemies. But Kearns was too well trained on alien terrain and kept her psychic distance from her overwhelming subject. Imbued with some of the 1960s suspicions of practical politics, she is fair to L.B.J. but unfailingly cool. To her, Johnson is a monstrous amalgam of political...
WALLACE. He finished in Massachusetts about as well as he had predicted and was elated that he carried Boston, which he scornfully calls "that citadel of Eastern liberalism." But his showing probably did not increase his already considerable strength in Florida. Moreover, he has yet to demonstrate that he can win this year in a Northern industrial state; another chance will come next week in Illinois...
...this faith in "civic salvation" gave way to "salvation by knowledge," Gomes said. "The university was viewed as a citadel to deal with the problems...
Once again elitism is being promoted in this citadel of elites. While the efforts of 80-100 musicians go unnoticed, a few outstanding individuals can receive credit for performance in Music 180. Undoubtedly the University takes a great deal of pride in the attention given to "Harvard's" stars when they perform in Boston or New York. The well-rounded image of Harvard is protected and promoted by those musicians wooed to Cambridge by the advent of Music 180. Thus, the exclusive study of individual and small ensemble performance receives credit, but the Orchestra, well, involves too many people. There...