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...incomprehensibility can be just amusing: "These people would always stand on the side of the status quo. And that's the one main lesson of Columbia. And that lesson was pretty much embodied in our slogan, which was 'up against the wall, motherfucker." The slogan very clearly defined the enemy. It says you're there; and we're here." What the slogan really means is "we've got power, too." Rudd has a lot of ideas; but they are all jumbled...
...minute and a half. In his first public appearance since nomination, he was a big hit, wowing a Portuguese-American association in San Francisco with language that will likely be repeated across the nation. It was an odd mixture of sensible patriotism and a smug defense of the status quo...
...Cullman III slapped down $110,400,000 for 50% of Gallaher's stock. Cullman's offer had two effects. Gallaher's board of directors stiff-upper-lipped it as "quite inadequate." And a major Gallaher shareholder that up to now had been satisfied with the status quo was shaken into action. American Tobacco has been a part of the market ever since 1901 when Founder James B. ("Buck") Duke stomped into London and tried to move into the industry. To keep him out, 13 British companies amalgamated into Imperial Tobacco, which is now Britain's largest...
...romantic dream-world of the student in Les Godulereaux or the marriage in The Third Lover is this harmony of tensions between Paul, Chris, and Christine. Perhaps only unconsciously aware of the degree to which they thrive on it, Paul and Chris work to preserve the status quo, while at the same time bitterly complaining about the need for change...
...Conductor Leonard Bernstein tried to re-orchestrate the R.F.K. melody for McCarthy: "What would Robert Kennedy be telling us now if he could? He would be warning us against passivity and irrationality, two evils that feed on each other, that might lead to the ugly triumph of the status quo...