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...after a recent coup; an Indonesian novelist held without trial for eight years; and Rhodesian Journalist Peter Niesewand, who was first sentenced to prison and then deported for violating his country's rigid Official Secrets Act (TIME, May 14). A.I. makes an almost sanctimonious effort to remain politically neutral; individual cases are carefully investigated to prevent the organization from being used for essentially nonpolitical crimes...
...associations with Alcott's works then, strictly in the context of childhood and safety, make a dispassionate return to her work difficult. If you reread them with any other purpose than to find a safe passage back to a neutral world, you are disappointed. A serious re-reading usually finds the plot as soppy as Love Story and the once beloved characters about as interesting as Pollyanna...
...Israelis, for their part, were officially cordial-but not too cordial. Whereas Brandt stressed his role as West German Chancellor, Golda Meir welcomed him as an individual who had fought the Nazis "in the darkest period for the human race." Both leaders, perhaps significantly, spoke in a neutral language, English...
...Social problems require an interdisciplinary focus," Horner said. "The exciting thing about the Institute is that it is a natural place to pull together all interdisciplinary experts. It is a neutral ground where they can come together to tackle their mutual interests...
...businessman who is at the top of his company has to be able to figure out what's going on," says Donald Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell, a Republican who now considers himself "neutral." In corporations as in Government, several officials note, executive assistants sometimes give orders in the chief's name without his knowledge -but if an assistant gets his superior in trouble by taking the boss's name in vain, he is booted out immediately, with no expressions of regret. Says a New York textile maker, who once discovered that an overzealous assistant was tapping...