Word: quo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Less to Lyndon. Though the move had been anticipated for weeks, cynics immediately suggested that the reduction was Martin's debt to Easy-Money Man Johnson-a quid for the quo of his reappointment as Reserve Board chairman the week before. A more logical explanation was that this time the Fed, which is often a leader in money matters, was simply a follower. It was reacting to an earlier drop from 6% to 51% in the prime rate-the interest rate that commercial banks charge blue-chip customers. The Board's decision was less a tribute to Lyndon...
This second general category of student dissenters directs its protest not so much at the status quo per se, but rather at what is perceived to be a rising tide of leftist influence ("liberal orthodoxy") on the campus and in the broader society. Thus the educationally oriented tactics of the student conservatives (for example, giving away copies of William Buckley's Up From Liberalism) are aimed cheifly at counteracting the efforts of both the student leftists and the nonideological campus-issue protestors (the latter, by supporting embattled administrators...
Youth can be troublesome to the status quo when a nation is in a "time of troubles." A nation is in trouble in a period of change, and particularly violent change. The only time that youth is revolutionary is in a revolutionary situation and period. Youth may be inherently restless but it is not inherently revolutionary. It has a revolutionary inclination only when revolution looms...
...Distaste for the "establishment." There is almost total rejection of the organizations that administer the status quo. The status quo is viewed as dominated by the "military-industrial complex." The university is seen as a handmaiden to this complex, doing research for it and training its servants. Much of the intellectual establishment is viewed as bought and paid...
...People, People Fry It"-because students have "no outlet to express any controversy." Beatman, who was once expelled for wearing a beard, collected a staff of a dozen teen-agers from three Middletown high schools with only one viewpoint in common: "They were dissatisfied with the status quo...