Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...belief in a permanently flawed human nature, and the Enlightenment tradition, with its belief in the perfectibility of man. Cotton Mather, meet Thomas Jefferson. This contradictory combination bespeaks the sheer and sometimes hopelessly unrealistic determination to overcome any evil that cannot be ignored, the refusal to accept the status quo in the universe...
...resolution calling on Reagan to "continue to refrain from undercutting" SALT II's provisions. Anticipating his decision, however, the Senate allowed for "proportionate responses" to any Soviet violations. Washington's NATO allies, meanwhile, urged the U.S. not to tamper with SALT II for fear of upsetting the nuclear status quo and undermining current U.S.-Soviet arms-reduction talks in Geneva...
...crucial one. It is indeed difficult to imagine few more pressing social problems than how we select our future elite--both effectively and fairly. Klitgaard superbly addresses the practical problems of effective choice. But if the net result of this effort is an affirmation of a flawed status quo, then, one wonders, why bother...
Emotionally cornered and widely condemned, the whites of South Africa are the prisoners of a status quo that is murderous to sustain and suicidal to abandon. Their response to this dilemma is not in itself surprising: the more their racist system is branded as offensive, the more defensive, and dangerous, they become. "The first habit we instill," says Hennie van der Merwe, "is the habit not to ask questions...
...humor. What's harmless about the way we think, or the structures we use to display that thought, or the values we assign to one kind of thought over another? It seems to me deadly. To try to say this thought is innocuous is to insulate the status quo from its effect--it is to lend an unexamined life...