the status quo, disturber, actuality, clamorous

1. Despite Its Woes, California's Dream Still Lives

By Michael Grunwald

The Golden State has fought the status quo since its birth 160 years ago. But even amid a particularly rough chapter in the state's history, the nation's future is being written in California. A special report

Majority Favors Cross-strait Status Quo (sic)
過半民眾希望維持兩岸現狀

from Front Matter: "... the thesis of my lectures about the public role of the intellectual as outsider, "amateur ," and disturber of the status quo. ..."
我這個系列演講的主題是：知識分子的公共角色是局外人、「業餘者」、攪擾現狀的人(outsider, "amateur," and disturber of the status quo)。

1.	on Page 7:
	"... individuals with powerful personalities and, above all, they have to be in a state of almost permanent opposition to the status quo: ..."
2.	on Page 22:
	"... media-and not only media but whole trends of thought that maintain the status quo, keep things within an acceptable and sanctioned perspective on actuality-by providing what ..."
3.	on Page 27:
	"... one of whose main functions is to preserve the status quo, and to make certain that things go smoothly, unchanged, and unchallenged . George Orwell talks about this very persuasively in ..."
4.	on Page 39:
	"... , Even in a large number of countries of the Third World a clamorous antagonism between the status quo powers of the national state ..."
5.	on Page 64:
	"... to innovation and experiment rather than the authoritatively given status quo. The exilic intellectual does not respond to the ..."
6.	on Page 115:
	"... What had once been a movement based in part on enthusiastic idealism and dissatisfaction with the status quo was simplified and refashioned retrospectively by the Second ..."
7.	from Front Matter:
	"... the thesis of my lectures about the public role of the intellectual as outsider, "amateur ," and disturber of the status quo. ..."
8.	from Front Matter:
	"... grips me because the romance, the interest, the challenge of intellectual life is to be found in dissent against the status quo at a time when the struggle on behalf ..."

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Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures

amateur

clamorous	(adjective) Conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry.
Synonyms:	strident, vociferous, blatant
Usage:	The clamorous din of voices filled the air, and the judge was unable to restore order and quiet in his courtroom for some time.

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the status quo Show phonetics
noun [S]
the present situation:
Certain people always want to maintain the status quo.

(endowment effect; status quo bias“現狀偏差”)日本翻譯為（所有効果 /所持効果/授かり効果） 。

disturb (INTERRUPT) Show phonetics
verb [T]
to interrupt what someone is doing:
Please don't disturb Georgina - she's trying to do her homework.
I'm sorry to disturb you so late, but my car's broken down and I was wondering if I could use your phone.

disturbance Show phonetics
noun [C or U]
Residents are fed up with the disturbance caused by the nightclub.
Phone calls are the biggest disturbance at work.
There was a minor disturbance (= violent event in public) during the demonstration, but nobody was injured.

actuality

, pl. -ties.

1. The state or fact of being actual; reality. See synonyms at existence.
2. Actual conditions or facts. Often used in the plural.