Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faculty reviewed the entire lan guage problem in the winter of 1949. At that time it approved a report from a special committee, headed by Dean Francis M. Rogers '39 of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which adopted a status quo approach...
...editor of Secretary Acheson's papers, in the October Foreign Affairs: "Fatigue-and stalemate beset the groups on which Stevenson must rely. However much he himself may be a symbol of refreshing change, his party, and even his part of his party, are symbols of the status quo. Except where, it has had Republican help, the Administration has been stalemated for several years, both at home & abroad. The much-debated Fair Deal is still a set of paper promises, and in foreign affairs the great achievements of the last four years are precisely those of which General Eisenhower...
Like Joan of Arc and Quo Vadis, Ivanhoe's acting is partly swallowed in the lavish scenery. But the script hurts it even more. Hollywood scriptwriters cannot seem to shake the notion that knights and their ladies were intellectuals, whose every conversation sparkled with neat phrases, like a Stevenson campaign speech. Although they have unshakled the dialogue somewhat from Scott's pedantic and dated prose, they fall far short of realism. The brush off the villian by the heroine, usually accomplished clearly by "get out, you varlet," becomes: "Farewell, and may each stone of this vaulted roof find a tongue...
...doubts that the Big Three Farben successors would like nothing better than to rejoin forces, and drag in the others. What may stop them is a proposed West German antitrust law. Said one allied official: "We have assurance from the [West German] federal government that the status quo of the successor companies will be retained for three years. That should give the present setup time to crystallize. One can just hope it won't come unstuck...
...Quo Vadis. Christianity v. paganism in Nero's Rome, in the costliest ($6,500,000) movie ever made; with 30,000 extras, 63 lions, Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr (TIME...