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...reviewer of The Wobblies [July 7] took me through iambic, pentameter, didactic, hortatory, diffident, progenitor, detestation, existentialism, scintilla, quixotic, schematic, protagonist, bourgeois, onomatopoetically, proletariat, crux, status quo, ante, minimal, prosody, recalcitrant, quiescent, ideologically, ascendancy, coalesce, dactyl and elegiac. But what, pray, is a bindle stiff? Is it possible that your man owns all these words as an integral part of his vocabulary...
...want to be first-class citizens?" asks Ferre. Statehood, he adds, is coming "eventually-so why not now?" Though the island's major statehood and independence parties have officially refused to endorse the plebiscite, factions of both groups are actively campaigning against the status quo...
...like under a proper, representative government." Also, though Hanoi may be approaching the limit of its ability to aid Communist forces in the South, there is still no assurance that it might not, as it has before, match a U.S. buildup by sending in more troops, restoring the status quo ante...
...right to dictate the peace to a victorious Israel. The spineless withdrawal of U.N. troops was in large part responsible for the conflict, as was Russia's arming of Egypt and Syria. The U.S., whose foreign policy has made a sacred cow out of the status quo everywhere in the world, did little to help Israel. Those who think the Arab-Israeli confrontation is over are living in a dream world. Nasser will be back. Syria will be back. And if Israel has a right to exist, it also has the right to the means to continue that existence...
...offer the flexibility of an academic graduation education. The subcommittee report, if not delayed indefinitely, might emerge from the faculty in a watered-down form which would institute meaningless changes. Attempts at reform by small groups of students and faculty seem stifled by outspoken commitment to the status quo among their fellows...