Word: statusful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group has asserted its own will on the majority. The majority have been manipulated to misconstrue their own interest as coincident with the interest of the powerful interest group that dominates important decision-making. Thus the preservation of law and order, desirable in itself, becomes the preservation of the status quo, which promotes the de facto disenfranchisement of the majority. The paradox of the "consciousness" of the majority is such that it conceives of the present political system as in its own interest. For example, it is clearly not in the students' interest, the demonstrators would claim, to maintain...
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...position, and was willing to use force to regain law and order. The administration had hesitated for so long because given the highly unorthodox situation of the occupied buildings, the demonstrators had the advantage, on a small scale, that the administration had on the larger one. The status quo was temporarily on the side of the student demonstrators. To regain the old status quo, the administration had to reverse this new one. This would require force and the obstruction of civil liberties in the same way that the students had used force and had obstructed civil liberties in occupying...
...demonstrators because that would, as he said, "alter the foundations of every university." The demonstrators couldn't give in: they had not accomplished their goal. The administration couldn't give in, because then the demonstrators would not have to. Yet there was the risk that in reversing a temporary status quo to enforce the more permanent one, the administration would alienate its student support...
...evening I discover that the electricity to the kitchen is cut off. I run downstairs and almost call for "some important" but somehow I am unwilling to accept that kind of status relation. I tell several of my peers and one of them finds the fuse box and sets things right...