Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stendahl, for his part deciding that he would "rather be wise and sensitive than clear," remained neutral during the sanctuary. It is Stendahl's first year as dean of the Divinity School, and he was certainly correct to avoid a rash statement of policy--whether favorable or unfavorable to the sanctuary. By doing so, he would have seemed emotional and impulsive and done a serious disservice to the Divinity School and to himself. Stendahl's single positive decision, to appoint a six-member faculty committee to serve as liaison with the students, was also correct...
James B. Prior, one of the students who organized the sanctuary, said after the arrest that the University had proven its "complicity" with the war by remaining neutral. From the radicals' point of view, the statement was embarrassing. In the first place, on what grounds could they ask Stendahl, or Harvard, to establish its non-complicity by refusing to recognize a Federal warrant? And second, how could they expect the University publicly to support the Marine when they couldn't even persuade the student body...
...pretense that Harvard has once again avoided any political commitment is a bit hard to accept in this case--and if Harvard is indeed still neutral on the grape strike, last week's action must have been taken exclusively to avoid unpleasantness with protesting students...
...governments, some lasting only days. As Premier after 1932, Salazar squashed partisan quarreling with dictatorial measures and brought order to the economy by applying conservative, pre-Keynesian fiscal policies. By the late 1930s, he was flirting openly with fascism. He backed Franco against the Spanish Republicans. While Portugal remained neutral in World War II, Salazar at first sympathized with the Axis; when it became clear that that was the losing side, he granted bases in the strategically located Azores Islands to the U.S. and Britain...
Farnum Pollard, general manager of the Sage Market, said that he is still "neutral" about the strike and will consider the YPSL demands today when he meets with Kelman...