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...would like to emphasize that the liquidation of Radio Free Europe would be interpreted by the peoples of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Rumania as final recognition by the United States of the present status quo and of the permanence of Soviet rule in East Europe...
...particularly important one because it traces women's oppression to its political, economic, and social causes rather than ascribing it to innate genetic inferiority. Man, not nature, has created woman's situation, Fjellman says; woman can change it. Her course provides the basis for an attack on the status quo...
WHERE DOES this leave Nixon? He has emerged from his old conservatism into the position of a Wall Street lawyer, concerned with preserving the status quo, but neither entirely sure how to do it, nor particularly concerned with the ideology of the means. On one hand, he proposes the Family Assistance Plan and Revenue Sharing, but on the other encourages school resegregation and the Justice Department's trampling on civil liberties...
This type of reasoning could enable Radcliffe to maintain the status quo of graduate prizes. Resolution of the problem as a whole hinges on solving this dilemma
...afford to be elitist about anything, we do have one dangerous irony to ourselves: because we are at an institution like Harvard, we are the most able to effect change through power in society, and the most likely because of our background to preserve the status quo...