Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Milk "Happy is the Eye that Sees" 9. Ampersands "Postcards" 10. Sparkalepsy "Friendly Fire" 11. Cockpit "P. J. Party" 12. Bugskull "All Members Please Rise" 13. Seeds "Evil Hoo Poo" 14. Gaunt "Good Bad Happy Seed" 15. The Smiles "Lions on the Prowl" 16. King Loser "Dick Dale" 17. Neutral Milk Hotel "Everything Is" 18. Fat Day "Pawn Shop" 19. Victims "TV Addicts" 20. Hammerhead "Anvil...
Disputes between architects and curators arose frequently during construction. One of the worst involved the wall colors in the exhibition space for Northern European 17th century paintings. Pei wanted beige or off- white, he says, because "neutral-colored walls go with any colors in the paintings." But the curators insisted on stronger tones. The dispute grew so acrimonious that one curator is reported by several observers to have referred repeatedly to Pei, behind his back, as "that slant-eyed little Chinaman...
...true that our budget deficit deserves attention. But Tsongas, Warren Rudman and their Concord Coalition use rhetoric that suggests that it is wrong by its very nature. In fact, borrowing money in order to spend it is morally neutral. Our judgment of such borrowing should depend on what it is used for; there can be good and bad deficits. But deficit spending in and of itself can be useful and should not be shamed out of the political debate...
Yasushi Akashi, who ran the U.N. mission in Cambodia, looks back on that $1.5 billion operation with some skepticism. "The quality of personnel was not uniformly outstanding," he says. "Civil administration was an area in which the U.N. had no experience." The peacekeepers were supposed to create a neutral political environment for elections. U.N. officials acknowledged that no adequate control over civil administration was ever established. Materiel was routinely stolen from the airport before being logged in. Cambodian cleaning women stripped the mission of at least 10 computers before they were caught. The wait for official supplies of pens...
Thus, like Prof. Gates, Jamie Billett asks us "not to attack Mansfield"--or his speech agency--but rather to attack the product he puts in the marketplace: his words, their veracity, etc. The speech-bearer and speech marketplace are neutral, and presumably of course systemically harmless. I beg to differ; both bearer and speech can be harmful...