Word: quos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sympathetic character a half-breed named Buffalo Dung, who deeply dislikes David and aims an arrow at his digestive juices. Unhappily, Buffalo Dung misses, and the epic staggers to its end like a strayed moose caught in an Armour's assembly line. By then, for those who wonder Quo Vardis Fisher?, heap big David and contented new Squaw Sunday are headed West, perhaps to Hollywood...
Some Negro teachers tend--unrealistically--to softpedal this aspect of the problem. They feel it will be a long time before real integration becomes a fact. In the meantime, limited integration, or de facto segregation will essentially preserve the status quo until Negro education improves to the point where it will equal the standards of that offered white students...
...building era: the Houses, Memorial Church, the Faculty Club, Dillon Field House, and the new Indoor Athletic Building were all in the process of completion; and the edifices themselves were perhaps symbolic of the tone of undergraduate life. In two important spheres there was dissatisfaction with the status quo and yet something of a reluctance to change...
Revelation of Hope. And what of the intellectual in a land where privilege has passed to the crowd? The intellectual's true vocation, says Philosopher Sidney Hook, "is critical independence. The intellectual betrays his vocation when he becomes a poet laureate of the status quo. The criterion is neither assent nor conformity . . . My experience has been that most so-called intellectuals are just as conformist to tradition in their immediate circle as the nonintellectuals. Many intellectuals would rather 'die' than agree with the majority, even on the rare occasions when the majority is right." Certainly, says Barzun...
...Britain's weekly Spectator, Author Forester last week disclosed the agony to which his hero has long subjected him. Excerpt from Ballade to an Old Friend: I set Your Lordship in the House of Peers- / But you have brought me many a quid pro quo / Because we've been together twenty years . . . / Yet horrid Horry mawkish matelot, / Obnoxious more, I think, to friend than foe, / Your very name excruciates my ears- / I hope you roast in hell, Horatio, / Because we've been together twenty years...