Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fortress at Spandau, perhaps, Rudolf Hess still takes his daily walks among the sparrows...
Cuba. Twenty years ago yesterday, a Cuban lawyer and an Argentinian doctor led a ragged band of 86 freedom fighters in an attack on a fortress in dictator Fulgencio Batista's Cuba. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara lost the battle for the Moncada garrison, and both were imprisoned for some time. Six years later, they led their small guerrilla army into Havana and began to implement a socialist revolution...
...brutally beautiful, lavishly choreographed - a pagan ritual in evening dress. The script, which has some vague relation to Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, concerns the exploits of a university student named Jonathan who is dis patched by his professor to scout a prospective raid on a vampire fortress...
...race: holocaust, Diaspora, and return. The total financier from the Lower East Side becomes just as totally the savior. He sets up a Society for the Rescue and Resurrection of the Jews. In 1945, he recruits survivors of Buchenwald for quite another kind of compound-the society's "fortress," built into the Lower East Side behind the blocks of Simon Stern real estate accumulated like so many walls of Nehemiah...
...virtue. His conservative stands on questions like University discipline, the Afro-American Studies Department and graduate student rights did much to undermine the halting progress being made at Harvard in the late sixties. He threw his weight behind the repressive Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, building a sequestered fortress for the CRR atop Holyoke Center so it could kick out dissidents in peace. He orchestrated the offensive against the Afro-American Studies Department which culminated in the restructuring of the Department in January: even after leaving for Washington, he explicitly retained a hand in appointing the search committees that...