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Full Idea
Quine is not an 'ostrich', because his strategy for dealing with property sentences is clear enough: all talk of attributes is to be dispensed with in favour of talk of eternal open sentences or talk of classes.
Gist of Idea
Quine aims to deal with properties by the use of eternal open sentences, or classes
Source
report of Willard Quine (Word and Object [1960], §43) by Michael Devitt - 'Ostrich Nominalism' or 'Mirage Realism'? p.100
Book Ref
'Properties', ed/tr. Mellor,D.H. /Oliver,A [OUP 1997], p.100
A Reaction
[See p.209 'Word and Object'] The proposal seems to be that a property like being-human (a category) would be dealt with by classes, and qualitative properties would be dealt with simply as predicates. I like the split, and the first half, not the second.