Word: neutering
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...more will be taken care of if the E R A is passed, as I fervently hope. But we must have been emotionally raped; we are measured, above all, by our work; we are encouraged not to bond, neither to each other nor to women. We are desexualized, desensualized; neuter brains, success machines. We are not supposed to enjoy touch, but supposed to be pure, powerful, intellectual, super-human. The prototypical perfect male is Mr. Spock of Star Trek, possessed of deep dedication and dominated by love (but always higher love: love of beauty, love of knowledge, love of truth...
...event recedes, the impact of television diplomacy in the Middle East seems less something to brag on -or to worry about. In fact, the coverage demonstrated how neuter television journalists had to be in a situation where two foreign leaders were playing so adroitly to the American public on all three networks...
...much freer will Chancellor be to speak his piece as commentator? That too is something of a neuter craft. Even as gifted a wordsmith and observer as Sevareid could, on days when his brow was furrowed but his mind only half engaged, sound merely sententious. As the CBS News code defines the job, the analyst is "to help the listener to understand, to weigh and to judge, but not to do the judging for him . . . the audience should be left with no impression as to which side the analyst himself actually favors...
Whether a wider public appreciates such nuances of neutrality, or considers neuter journalism to be cautious, timid or dull, is harder to judge. It's not easy to be mutedly sensible in a medium so given to the brassy certainties of aging let-it-all-hang-out types, partisan politicians, sarcastic academic panelists and gabby talk-show hosts...
...Hong Kong. one of the few places in town where you can get hold of Kirin beer, a Japanese treat. The rum drinks are also lots of fun; they're the only things you can order there with more of a kick than the food. And the culturally neuter might want to look into the undeservedly obscure Georgie's on Mass. Ave. near the Law School, which boasts terrific Bloody Marys and an even better bowling machine, not to mention a giant-screen color TV for Monday night football. If you can take the conversation, which often runs to torts...