Word: fortress
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...only a probing action, but it shook the very foundations of the fortress. Since 1907, the Oak Room of Manhattan's venerable Plaza Hotel has been an all-male bastion for three hours every weekday at lunchtime. Until last week, that is, when 15 members of the National Organization for Women, led by that superfeminist Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique), 47, demanded entrance on the ground that their civil rights were being violated. Five of the ladies actually managed to brush by a Plaza assistant manager and the maitre d' to capture a center table. But then they...
...probably a sign of a healthy national reevaluation. Talking about U.S. Pacific Edwin Reischauer, former Ambassador to Japan, that the U.S. adopt a "lower profile," or what the Japanese call a "low posture." None of this suggests that the U.S. should- r could- withdraw into a Fortress America. But it does suggest does suggest that after Viet Nam, the U.S. might get along with a somewhat smaller military establishment...
...post offers unique advantages to Kennedy during the next few years. With the Republicans in control of the White House and all the big-state governorships except Texas, Congress becomes the Democrats' principal sounding board and fortress. In opposition to the White House but in firm control of Capitol Hill, the congressional Democrats thus have wider responsibility and opportunity to assert themselves than they have had with a Democratic President insistent on passing his own legislative program...
...question of doctrine, I presume Dean Ford is referring to those liberals, particularly in student government, who are frustrated by their inability to implement their reforms, and outraged by the secret dealings of faculty and administration committees. The committees on the Tenth House, and Mrs. Bunting's plans for Fortress Radcliffe are cases in point; so was the behavior of the Committee on Educational Policy during the ROTC crisis...
...true that Bach's chorales are still widely used at Protestant services-and in the ecumenical climate of modern Roman Catholicism, no organist would hesitate to use his setting of Luther's A Mighty Fortress as a prelude to Sunday Mass. Still, the mode of Christian worship is not that of Bach's time, and the impact of his compositions, whether secular or sacred, stems largely from a general feeling of transcendence in the music. "He will give Christianity to Christians, Judaism to Jews, even Communism to Communists," says Karl Richter, conductor of the Munich Bach Choir...