This is as it should be, not only because his work is good, but because museums are one of his recurrent images, as repressive bastions of authority and as theaters where cultural dramas get acted out.
But the length of the review, the quality of the writing and the fact that it appeared in the New York Review of Books, bastion of quiet authority in a noisy world, give it added power.
When they scream "Kill the Bitch," they refer not so much to Hillary Clinton as to the archetypal Bitch--to all women who challenge the bastion of male authority.
This atmosphere has become so pervasive that it is transforming even the last bastions of traditional authority, where consensus about what sort of behavior is shameful still exists.
Society's vanguard, the revolutionary committees, or "those who have been convinced, through the Green Book, of the fraudulence of contemporary democracy", were to incite the masses in their conquest of all bastions of "conventional" authority.
The other efficient governments on the Forum's top 10 list include bastions of centralized authority like the United Arab Emirates, a Gulf nation similar to Qatar; Singapore and Hong Kongg.
FOR more than a decade educators have been expecting the Internet to transform that bastion of tradition and authority, the university.
MUSEUMS are among the last bastions of high-culture authority these days.
By the time of Bloody Sunday in 1920, in other words, the authorities regarded Croke Park as a bastion of defiant Irish rebels and believed the GAA harboured republican activists in its ranks.
At least 22 people have been killed in the last week and hundreds more injured in fighting around the city, a one-time bastion of support for Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi that has shrugged off the new government's authority.
