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...virulent Arab nationalism, as you imply [June 14]. Let us wait and see what the trial will disclose-if it takes place; for another accident may occur. In any case, the fact remains that the only three men who since F.D.R.'s time seriously threatened the status quo are no more. And no presidential or other oratory will stop any thinking man, American or European, from regarding as strange the assertion that the three most progressive Americans have been assassinated by men who felt rejected by a capitalist society or entertained grudges against...
...believe you have presented in one picture [June 7] the most eloquent portrayal of the U.S. today and the evolution of its citizenry. The big question: Which will win out-the robe of status quo, or the spirited cry for reappraisal evident in the beard, turtleneck, medallion and look of challenge on our graduate's face...
Away from Marcuse. That plea for the status quo was just what can be expected, says Radical Philosopher Herbert Marcuse, the California-based evangelist of nonworker revolution who is one of the heroes of the European student rebels. Modern technocratic workers, whether they labor in Communist or capitalistic nations, he says, are too wrapped up in the system to turn on it-and increasingly, as student activists put out calls to the factory for a show of solidarity, they prove him right. Marcuse's answer is to wage revolution with small groups of intellectuals and students. But more than...
...December, Roxbury spokesmen Bryant Rollins and George Morrison launched a broadside against the Joint Center after Harvard and MIT received $6 million from the Ford Foundation for urban research: "Research conducted by armchair theoreticians and uninvolved intellectuals is a pure waste of money and works to maintain the status quo. By [this] time, people throughout Boston--and particularly people in our black community--should be entirely fed up with researchers and social planners and urban developers telling us and our communities what our problems are and what the solutions...
...Campus. From a Republican family in New York's affluent Westchester County, he racked up a succession of A's in college, won a Rhodes scholarship, wrote and starred in campus plays, headed the student government. Yet he is in total rebellion against what he calls "status quo-ism: the feeling that order and status quo are the most important things?in the ghetto, in Southeast Asia and everywhere." Reich feels that his age group has been under tremendous pressure to excel in scholarship ever since Sputnik. But "all of a sudden, somewhere in there...