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...argument goes like this: every movie is propaganda. Every character is a walking placard-for capitalism or idealism or monogamy or the status quo. Every shot, by its placement and rhythm and duration, is one more Pavlovian command to the viewer. A narrative movie is usually successful to the extent that it obscures these facts, transforms the thesis into entertainment and the placards into persuasive semblances of human beings...
Carroll M. Williams, Bussey professor of Biology, believes that there "was an intellectual basis for preserving the status quo" and that the split of the departments could have adverse effects...
...groups in addition to INCAR also participated in the demonstration. Larry Hambrecht, a member of the Progressive Labor Party, described Wilson as a "Social Darwinist." "It's in the interest of the ruling class to give a Pulitzer and a Harvard position to Wilson because he says the status quo is because of human nature," he said...
...mean that some individualism flourish while may needlessly suffer their ways towards the equilibrium known as death. This is why, in the absence of any comprehensive alternative to the NIEO, we should at the very vigorously discussing, with respect to the bilateral and multilateral policies which are the status quo, the political practicality and economic costs and benefits of its key proposals (e.g. elimination of the brain drain from LDC's renegotiation of the debts of LDC's preferential transfer of technology and appropriate industries to LDC's expansion of the Generalized System of Preferences; formation of buffer stocks, producers...
...golden rule" of letter writing recommended by the committee is merely a reiteration of a custom that is, in theory, already status quo. However, as the case of the Harvard doctors who composed letters for a colleague convicted of rape illustrates, the "golden rule" doctrine may not be followed in practice...