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Meanwhile, Jeremiah Ford II, the director of intercollegiate athletics at Pennsylvania, was reported as planning to keep the status quo despite agitation for a cut from the present price...
...summing up the files McCarthy released, the Tribune said, ". . . some members of McCarthy's staff believed Schine would never have been drafted into the army except that 'extreme left wing writers' started 'screaming about his case'." The file cited said nothing of the draft, but deplored Schine's status quo as a private...
Speaking before the H.Y.R.C., Huntington said that liberals believed essentially in the idea of individual freedom. In opposition, conservatives, besides insisting on "a really passionate affirmation of the status quo," set their faith is the right and desirability of strong governmental powers...
...Game is an amusing tragedy of manners. Never rude or strained, the picture flays the social excesses of the French aristocracy, exposing lives of vapid insincerity and vicious lack of purpose. Director and co-scenarist Jean Renoir is too subtle to stage a Gallicorgy after the style exemplified by Quo Vadis?. He prefers to draw out indignation, letting the characters condemn themselves by treating infidelity, indelicacy and even brutality as daily steps toward a Good Life whose only end is to escape boredom. Not that decadence is portrayed as innately vile. Rather, its syrupy charm cloys, smothering its cultists' sensibilities...
Freely Speaking. In Mercedes, Texas, showing the film Quo Vadis, the operator of the Wes-Mer Drive-In theater decided that a translation was necessary, on the marquee put "Doónde Vas" for his Mexican customers, "Where You All Goin' " for the Texans...