impregnability

“The accomplishment of the director Todd Chandler,” Teo Bugbee wrote in a review for The Times, “is that he continues to find settings that demonstrate this same eerie divide between the desire for security, and the extreme measures being taken by schools to achieve impregnability.”

The accomplishment of the director Todd Chandler is that he continues to find settings that demonstrate this same eerie divide between the desire for security, and the extreme measures being taken by schools to achieve impregnability.

“They had taken great comfort from his apparent impregnability. They referred to him frequently in our conversations and seemed to take him as proof that communism could survive the current liberal onslaught. When that proved not to be the case, they may have concluded that they had been right at Tiananmen, that any gesture of moderation would be simply too dangerous, and their only chance of survival was to be absolutely inflexible.”

That image of world-defying impregnability, however, may belie a brewing disaster.

This complex topography led to it being dubbed the “Gibraltar of the north,” due to its impregnability.