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...another. Bentham refused to accept the "natural laws, natural rights," theories of previous economists; Susan B. Anthony skeptically disagreed with the idea that only men could vote. None of these people claimed to be right or wrong in the absolutist sense of Father Feeney; they simply questioned the status quo. And in every case their questioning has helped mankind along. As long as man keeps on scratching his head and asking questions, he will go right on doing himself some good...
...Status Quo. In Newport News, Va., Railway Owner W. C. King Jr. took on a new partner, Jeff L. Robins, heralded the event in the local Daily Press: "You will receive the same lousy service . . . probably even higher prices, and the only real difference is that Jeff shares in the profits, if any, or has to make up part of the losses...
John S. Dusenberry, assistant professor of Economics and a co-director of his department's tutorial program, agreed with Emerson that he preferred the status quo in the College tutorial system...
Currently in the fifth month of his first six years, Griswold has decided to dedicate himself to learning his job and maintaining more or less of a status quo at Yale while he's learning. Occasionally he talks about his past as if he were intimidated by it. Actually his present uneasiness in Yale's presidential chair stems from a healthy respect for the problems, particularly financial that the president of Yale must handle. Griswold is not "worried" about his problems; he is "concerned." He is confident that they can ultimately be solved and once they are, he wants...
...comedy, or in the last case, tragedy, degenerate into the longueurs of debate; farce becomes crude. Devastating in his ability to talk on both sides of the question and to cap or sink his own arguments, Shaw damps us because he talks his way back to the status quo, and leaves the impression that all he has had to say has only verbal importance. We are back where we started...