Word: fortress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FACT The fortress held only seven prisoners...
...been transformed into little laboratories of restructuring. Under Gorbachev, they are to change citizens from sheep into self-starters. Said Boguslovsky: "Soviet society requires not just a person who carries out orders but someone who thinks for himself. Our children are not mannequins, and our school is not a fortress...
Retired General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, former head of the Honduran armed forces, left his fortress-like home in Tegucigalpa's posh Florencia Norte district just after 10 a.m. His driver was taking him to purchase a Bible and visit his brother. At an intersection three blocks away, as many as six guerrillas toting submachine guns sprayed Alvarez's car with bullets as he pleaded, "Don't do this to me!" The left-wing Popular Liberation Movement, known as the Cinchoneros, claimed responsibility for the deaths of Alvarez and his driver...
With that, the Bastille exploded into the biggest uproar since a mob stormed the fortress prison to begin the French Revolution of 1789. Some of the brightest stars in the world of music noisily opened fire in support of Barenboim. Jessye Norman, the stately Georgia-born soprano, said she would "reconsider" whether to sing in the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Revolution. Patrice Chereau, who was to stage a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni on opening night a year from now, said he considered his contract "annulled by this event." Conductor-composer Pierre Boulez resigned...
...contend that lawyers simply bond together because all--men and women alike--deal with the same difficult work. Public sector law is characterized by low pay, long hours and little prestige, and the circumstances of the work more than the gender of the lawyers creates what Packard calls a "fortress mentality...