Word: quos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coles cites SDS' response to riot-control in Roxbury last March as an example of activist thinking spawned in academic isolation. SDS at the time demanded that police--as enforcers of a repressive status quo--be withdrawn from Roxbury. Coles sharply criticized SDS for taking an ideological stance toward an immediate problem, for ignoring the plight of Negroes "whose houses are being gutted, whose children are being killed...
...aspirations of the students who level these charges. I'm certainly not opposed to the kind of social analysis they have made. But I am against a kind of short-circuited thinking that says because we know that the police are trying to enforce a certain kind of status quo, the solution is to get rid of the police--where? --in Roxbury, where the police, God knows, are needed all the time by the very poor people the students and I presumably want to help...
...agreement to initiate preliminary peace talks with North Viet Nam [May 10] is conceivably the most constructive achievement of American diplomacy in recent years. It has become increasingly evident that perpetuation of the status quo is untenable. For the incongruence of our increased involvement, upon an ever-diminishing base of rationale, has been unveiled before all eyes. Hopefully both negotiating teams will move swiftly towards an honorable and realistic peace...
...pressure on Stokes to push through a boost in the city income tax from ½% to 1%. Admitting many mistakes since he took office, Stokes nevertheless can now say proudly: "We've come a long, long way. One thing we won't do is allow the status quo to continue...
...staple of Chinese official rhetoric, this time it does have a certain validity. For whatever its stated objectives, in reality the treaty will enforce an "atomic apartheid" in both peaceful and military fields. Limiting the number of members in the nuclear club can only support the strategic status quo, whose staunchest defenders are the United States and the Soviet Union. Their remarkable harmony in presenting the draft treaty last week amazed U.N. delegates. "The only thing they didn't do was hold hands," remarked one delegate...