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...guess is that CRIMSON's strategy won't work. It won't work because it requires CRIMSON's readers to buy the myth that the DAS is managed by a willful group of pretaped pre-programmed agents of the status quo, committed to extending the hegemony of the United States to the four corners of the earth. It won't work because it uses the guil?by-association technique-Sukarno-Mason-Suharto-Papanek-PKI-Vernon-Widjojo-in a community that is largely immune to that shabby approach. It won't work, most of all, because there isn't anything mysterious...
...look like after a sweeping cultural revolution. Furthermore, the best revolutionary tactic, as Louis Hartz has said, is that which "makes the future both mysterious and lucid" -lucid enough to give people the confidence to act, but not freighted with details which can be compromised to reinforce the status quo...
...differentials. His sentence came as no surprise. The CRIMSON's article failed to convey the essence of the situation because it did not mention any of these specific instances of Harvard's exercising its power in the courts to accomplish its political ends: the preservation of the status quo for the benefit of the men who run this country...
...have heard more than enough from the stammering statesman for the status quo. He has formed his own Triple-A club-for atrocious and absurd alliteration...
...flake in baseball is to be intelligent. A flake is someone who disturbs the status quo (i.c. an outside agitator). Suddenly the television producers were nowhere in sight, the owners treated Bouton not as a star but as a commodity, and he ended up in the minor leagues. Another forgotten man, another tax loss for the owners. But there were new stars, after all, to take his place in the firmament. Jim Bouton became a marginal ball-player, lingering in the lower minor leagues until baseball expanded in 1968 and his contract was picked up by the Seattle Pilots...