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...essential common denominator in these shifts in the policy of the department has been the de-politicization of Afro studies, both in its relation to the University, and in its philosophy. A better word might be "repoliticization", for the department has not become politically neutral in the least--one set of political principles has merely been replaced with another. Out with Pan-Africanism, out with Black liberation, out with relevant Black education, in with academic "objectivity", and in with political non-partisanship. Approaching a problem with a definite perspective is "unscholarly", we are told. Partisanship, some say, is the enemy...
...Congress) to leave messages in." What was needed, they argued, was a capable manager who could secure the enactment of administration initiatives. As Adlai E. Stevenson III of Illinois said: "It seems to me that what the Senate needs more than anything else is management and a philosophically neutral climate...
...used to be around Damascus and the Golan Heights. But this is really only a temporary situation. Israel cannot tolerate a return to the dangerous situation of a year and a half ago, when terrorists used southern Lebanon as a base for their attacks against Israel. We want a neutral zone in southern Lebanon-not a buffer zone-in which no forces exist except Lebanese forces-not U.N. forces-that keep the security and tranquillity...
...hand. In his off-watch time, Buckley read Moby Dick. But no whales were sighted, just an unidentified submarine. Buckley also tells of anchoring in an isolated cove in the British Virgin Islands, only to be unexpectedly joined minutes later by another boat bearing Dr. Benjamin Spock. In warm neutral waters, ideological differences fade to reveal indelible tax brackets...
...portraying Brick, a difficult, ambiguous role, Wagner chooses to be a taciturn neutral who has made a separate, soluble peace with the bottle. Yet at the end, he seems gallantly ready to break his marital fast to honor Maggie's plantation-hungry lie to Big Daddy that she is pregnant...