Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond the Ivory Tower's cost is $15.95; its benefits consist of an original approach to the vexing problems faced by private universities. The synthesis struck is animated by a genuine and admirable belief in progress. How odd that its effect is a resounding defense of the status quo at Harvard...
Marglin makes it clear he expects the status quo will continue unless students become vocal in demanding change, as they were in the late '60s, Meanwhile, he maintains his lonely outpost at the top of Littauer, surrounded by his mainstream colleagues There he waits for the political ride to shift, once again bringing his views into the center of debate. Maybe then, it students provide the impetus, he will no longer face isolation in the department Of the current situation, he says, "I think the real lonely are the students...
...Everyone I talk to says it [the rent board] is a biased board. The thing is I suppose it does have to do with what you think it's supposed to do." According to Polvere, the rent board" by its nature is a status quo agency it keeps the lid on rents" and trys to prevent the depletion of the housing stock, he says. "It's essentially a conservative--not in the political sense--agency...
...Marxist revolutionary Nor did they pose a lethal threat to United Fruit's interests, its fruit-producing lands remained untouched But America, caught up in the hysteria of McCarthysim and the Cold War, flinched. The reflex to react immediately and decisively against any perceived danger to the capitalist status quo, in the United States or abroad, became highly developed Arbenz, a flawed politician in Schlesinger and Kinzer's eyes was nonetheless a true pluralist and certainly not a Marxist. But in Washington, where the CIA was steadily gaining influence and officials saw red in every corner, the Guatemalan reforms were...
...SEMANTICS OF MUTUAL or implicit recognition, however, do not hold out the prospects of an eventual and enduring settlement. That must be achieved by genuine compromise--Israel must retreat from its stubborn West Bank policy and the PLO must back down from maximalism. Neither the status quo which Begin supports nor the status quo ante which the PLO trumpets has much grounding in the reality or the ideal of pace...