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...master-minds. Its counterparts are too much in evidence throughout our society for the cause to lie so near the surface. We are on the defensive militarily, just as we are on the defensive politically, economically, and psychologically, because basically we think of ourselves as representatives of the status quo, attempting to preserve it against a powerful new order. We are attempting to resist the principle of change, and we are beginning to see the hopelessness of that task. Upon our ability to develop plans for our own new order, and to fight the war with these plans in view...
...interested in an Axis victory. "To say that we cannot survive in a totalitarian world does not make sense," was the keynote of the full page advertisements which last May in the Crimson, the Yale News, and the Princetonian mocked the ability of the British to defend the status-quo against the Have-Nots, and suggested that "the logic of the situation for France at present may soon appear to the British people to be the logic of the situation for them...
Therefore, with visions before me of the day when Harvardians will cease to look like something that comes in six delicious flavors. I suggest that the status quo be maintained. G. Sirkin...
Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry F. Byrd pointed out that the bill could mean pensions up to $4,175 a year for life on a few dollars of investment, that Congress seemed to be grabbing quids without a quo. But the idea of pensions for Congressmen is not without some consolation for taxpayers...
When he berates the colleges for being "too narrowly intellectual, too critical, too debunking, too skeptical," one senses that the Dean's attitude arises from a fundamental belief not in democracy but in the status quo. The reason America's colleges must overdo their task is that their raw product is too unintellectual, too uncritical, too gullible, and too full of bunk. The high schools and to a lesser extent the prep schools provide merely a superficial pot-pourri of facts and so send to college men and women lacking sufficient intellectual maturity to be given the finishing touches...