Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changes of policy under the new Premier. Miki is known to be pro-American and a supporter of the Japanese-American Mutual Security Treaty. He is also a longtime advocate of closer ties between Peking and Tokyo, and played a major role last year in shifting Japan from a neutral to a pro-Arab stance in the Middle East. His major problem, of course, will be to curb Japan's inflation (at more than 20% annually, it is the worst in the industrial world) and to spur his country's stagnant growth rate...
...record that the U.S. did all in its power to bring about conditions that would aid a coup by fomenting economic collapse, using the CIA to "destabilize" Allende, maintaining political contacts with anti-Allende elements, funding the opposition press, training and arming the military, and finally maintaining a neutral policy at the moment of the coup, thereby insuring Allende's downfall and his death. It is curious to note that the only reporter who was allowed to view Allende's corpse worked for El Mercurio, the newspaper funded...
MacEwan's and the other since-departed radicals' point is that the practice of neutral scholarship is impossible. MacEwan says, "Ideology is a good thing, and in any case, an inescapable thing--if it's a good ideology." The radical faculty at Harvard takes pride in having a point of view, and insists that all scholars have points of view. The radicals think the senior faculty's bias toward maintaining the capitalist social system is concealed by its seemingly value-free work. MacEwan says that "to work to help coordinate the economy and advise the government--as many orthodox economists...
...shuttling between Cambridge and Washington to make clear to former President Nixon that wage and price controls were a fine thing was evidence of both the university's influence on the society's conservative leader and the conservative society's influence on the university and the direction of its neutral, pure scholarship...
...internecine character of the Economics Department struggle stems, then, not only from the radicals opposing the society that practically all of the senior faculty tacitly supports. The radicals are also calling into question the image of the academic as a neutral searcher after truth, an image upon which the entire legitimacy of the American university and the American academic depends. The radicals'view of what an intellectual is challenges directly their senior Harvard colleagues' mystique and status as independent intellectuals. The radicals portray academics largely as the ideological offshoots of the classes they represent in society and not as impartial...