Word: quos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Middle class people were, as the slogan went, mad as hell, and the right-wing addressed their legitimate complaints, while the left ignored them, or accused them of greed. Consequently, the left had little to offer except more of the same--a clearly unsatisfactory status quo. "Like the respectable antiwar protestor of Jules Feiffer's 1966 cartoon who carried a sign calling for A Little Less Bombing, the cautious liberals of the late seventies were for a little less cutting. It was not a slogan likely to bring anybody to the barricades...
Since Afghanistan, the U.S. has pretty much thrown away its carrots-SALT, grain sales, cultural exchanges, etc.-and resorted exclusively to waving sticks (and not very big ones at that). President Reagan has expressed a preference for open, Jackson-style, quid pro quo linkage. Henry Kissinger criticized this approach in the mid-'70s, but has now endorsed the Administration's position. He was right the first time...
...honor or ideology or money. Not the most sensible conclusion, especially in a nuclear age, but it seems to be the standard operating philosophy for most countries, including our own. Or, we could dismiss war as unthinkable and retreat into an eyes-closed pacifism, content with the status quo if only it means no one will...
...does not act directly on politics in the way that the engagé wing of the avantgarde, from Courbet onward, expected it to do. All it can do is provide examples of radical feeling and models of dissent, unless it simply wishes to confirm the status quo...
...despite hopes of student groups that they will be able to establish a good working relationship with Vorenberg, some student leaders said they regard him as a supporter of the Law School status quo who is insensitive to student concerns...