Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade's leitmotiv of illusion: now you see it, now you don't. For some days it looked as if France were in the grip of a revolution, everyone manning the barricades. The country came to a boil and then, just as quickly, cooled down to the status quo...
Looked at another way, it is a battle of status quo. Harvard, a perennial powerhouse, vs. St. Lawrence, a hungry insurgent. Monarch vs. revolutionary...
What, then, will our now-lucky historian find? He'll first learn a lesson about distances and will see just how far the far right is from the mainstream. Phillips calls his movement conservative, but he is, his piece tells us quite clearly, a radical who finds the status-quo not only unacceptable but also evil and dangerous...
...President now "pays court to the Washington establishment." Representing those on the political fringes of society, Phillips finds any politician who fails to divide the world into starkly contrasting good and evil camps treasonously willing to sacrifice the country's best interest in order to maintain the immoral status-quo...
...faultless, but it is this concern to maximize our effectiveness for students that prompted reform consideration in the first place and which continues to promote these discussions. It is a tribute to OCS and Dean Jewett that they are as involved as they are and that the status quo is always under scrutiny. It may that Harvard's procedures are not as effective as they can be. But as of this year they certainly seem more objective and more effective than they have been. and Harvard students continue to compile an impressive record of success in the various competitions...