Word: statusful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arabs' foe and ? what is far harder for the Arabs to bear ? of their own continuing inferiority and impotency despite their greater numbers of people, planes, tanks, guns and resources. All of this has fed a growing, fatalistic conviction within Egypt that the rapidly hardening status quo in the Middle East can be broken only by another war ? even though most Egyptians do not want one, even though another war would almost certainly mean another defeat...
What would take up the slack and yet provide the proper status? Economics Professor Robert Browne of Fairleigh Dickinson University had both a grievance and an ingenious thought. As he and other black militants see it, whitey has dominated vice in the U.S. for too long. Recommending that Negroes get their fair share of that action, he declared: "Racketeering, prostitution and the numbers, if they are to continue, must be put into the hands of the black community." How that might be accomplished without upsetting another militant minority, the Mafia, was left for a subsequent conference to discuss...
Self-Sacrifice. Taking up more substantial issues, the conference sanctioned birth control in special hardship cases, but refused otherwise to raise the lowly status of women in the Islamic world. Moslem husbands may still divest themselves of an unwanted wife by simply repeating "I divorce thee" three times. The conference also took a surprisingly moderate stand on the Middle East. It refused to consider the demand of the El Fatah guerrillas for a jihad (holy war) against Israel - and pointedly explained that the word jihad also meant sacrificing one's self for the good of mankind...
...very long ago she did not exist. The next moment she was everywhere-the new darling of the literary set. Norman Podhoretz, author of Making It, Commentary editor and close student of cultural chic, explained the Sontag phenomenon this way: When Mary McCarthy arrived at "the more dignified status of Grande Dame," she left a vacancy as "Dark Lady of American Letters." With a timing she herself would be the first to appreciate, Miss Sontag appeared in the early 1960s to fill it, her belle-dame-sans-merci credentials already well in hand...
...Chase N. Peterson '52, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids, said yesterday that he had sent letters to the 21 prospective Harvard freshmen who were awarded Naval ROTC scholarships informing them that their change of status with the Navy "in no way effects our desire to have you at Harvard...