Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wiser still to adopt a neutral label, if a label is necessary: "consciousness-altering drugs." The phrase "mind-distorting drugs" pushes forward an arbitrary and unscientific evaluation. It's unnecessarily prejudicial. The Harvard statement should be amended to exclude this impropriety of phraseology...
...SPORTS LOVER, rooting from a box at the Army-Navy football game. Though a theoretically neutral observer (he spent the first half on Navy's side, the second half on Army's), Old Navyman Kennedy cheered Navy home to a 34-14 victory, but at times seemed to lapse into boredom at the lopsided game...
...mother's bedroom door and was asked "Who's there?", she replied: "The Queen of The Netherlands." Wilhelmina kept Holland out of World War I only to become embroiled in controversy after it was all over. Unannounced, Germany's defeated Kaiser Wilhelm entered the neutral Netherlands and requested-and got-sanctuary. It was to the Kaiser that Wilhelmina addressed what is probably her best-known remark...
...inscrutability that maddens Ahab, for Moby Dick is the universal mystery of things as they are. When Ahab probes with his lance for the great whale's heart, he seeks to know the secret of the universe, striving, in the same moment, to destroy the neutral, unresponsive "whiteness" of all that is impervious to man. Like all great tragic heroes, Ahab dies in the glory and blasphemy of a rebellious pride that will not accept a universe that is not man-centered. And since the tragic hero bears with him the stifled rebellion of lesser men, his death...
India's angry millions, armed, trained and aided by the U.S., must be a prospect that not even Mao Tse-tung relishes facing. Instead, by in effect quitting while they are ahead, the Chinese can play the peacemakers in the short-sighted eyes of the neutral nations, while having dramatically demonstrated their military superiority over India and without having to abandon the long-range threat. Says Madame Pandit: "This attack was far more than just an attack on one border. India is completely and wholly dedicated to democracy and not to some kind of 'Asian democracy.' China...