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Lacking prestige in the pedagogic pecking order, vo-ed teachers stick together in the self-protective American Vocational Association, a strong anchor for the status quo in vo-ed teaching. According to Executive Secretary M. D. Mobley, who heads up the A.V.A.'s persistent Washington lobby, what the U.S. needs is plenty of home economics courses. "The most enduring nations of the world" he says, "are those that have maintained good homes...
...basic urge for reunification in a country which achieved national unity later than other European nations and is fiercely insistent on its ethnic identity. That fact is at the heart of Bonn's opposition to any East-West agreement that would formally or psychologically seal the status quo in Germany and Europe. Says a Western ambassador in Bonn: "The issue of German unity still has more explosive potential than any other issue on the political scene in Germany today. We'd be fools to underestimate...
...that do not recognize each other nevertheless sign treaties. (One example: the Laos truce agreement, signed by the U.S. and Red China.) The fact remains that a non-aggression agreement, beyond the unilateral pledges already made by NATO, would be taken as a formal recognition of the European status quo, and that could only help Khrushchev unless the West were to obtain significant concessions in return...
...nether-world such as her postwar England; but a good writer uses it to comment on reality rather than to indulge a hypothetical vision. Miss Laski's commentary lacks political validity: in presenting her image of nuclear destruction, she strains toward praise of an isolationist status quo. Thus Rachel Verney informs her Amercan rescuer, "for five years I've been free from guilt. I've lived in peace with my family." War is shown to be the disrupter of a contented world, rather than the outgrowth of a disparite and unjust...
...help "cure" the marginally insane. Reiss claims that his experience in the woefully undermanned, underfinanced state hospital system proves that no other group besides volunteers is able to restore patients' confidence in their capacity to live outside. Reiss does not write too clearly, but his description of the status quo in state asylums is a shocking and important document. The accompanying line drawings by Marcia Roberts of Metropolitan State Hospital hardly equal the stark tone of Reiss's prose...