Word: bastion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This cynical observation doubles as a declaration of desire for Marianne Tourvel, the child's mother and the bastion of Christian fidelity in Dangerous Liaisons 1960, showing this weekend at the Brattle Theater...
...refreshments; Atlanta's Oxford Books (115,000 titles) has a lunch counter and stays open until 2 a.m. on weekends. Says owner Rupert LeCraw: "We've built a following of regular customers who don't even go into chain stores." Stuart Brent, 70, whose Chicago store has been a bastion of intellectual taste for about 40 years, says, "You have people ((those who run chain stores)) today who think that life is the bottom line. But the great principle of being an independent is to become passionate about books...
SINCE the turn of the century when it was simply another bastion of fine American WASPdom, Harvard has slowly evolved into a more open-minded institution...
Such sentiments are a far cry from the compliant attitudes of black leaders 20 years ago. To preserve racial harmony, the ruling white establishment offered token gains and piecemeal concessions. But the price for blacks was a slow pace toward integration. The city remains a bastion of housing segregation, with most blacks living south of the downtown business district and most whites to the north. Black leaders are pressing for more seats on the eleven-member city council, where, despite their 30% share of the population, they hold but two positions; Hispanics (16%) and Asians (2%) have none...
...State betting plan is in the very earliest planning stages right now, but a loud voice of protest has been raised already by that bastion of pure, untampered athleticism, the National Football League...