Word: neutralism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anglo: white, non-Mexican American. Though normally used simply in a neutral, descriptive manner, the term sometimes has pejorative overtones. It has to some extent replaced gringo. Agringada describes a Mexican American who has gone completely Anglo in his way of life...
...society where children are conditioned to develop conceptually profane areas in their minds to accommodate words that in themselves are neutral, that sends missionaries to teach innocent people living comfortably in warm climates to be shameful of their bodies-which, paradoxically, are made in the image of God -it is refreshing to read of the new morality, which, new or old, was always concerned with the whole man, his intent, not merely his flesh. The days of busybodies and social cancers with boots up to their knees and collars up to their ears are hopefully numbered...
...dorm fills up the spaces and presses in on the people living there, sounds, words, commands--the voice of the public consciousness. The constricted space of plural living is a sign or sorrow. Free, open space is needed for the fortuitous and the unforeseen to occur, for the emotionally neutral and the amplitude of life everyone has a right to expect...
...institution of this size and with this purpose can be neutral about its environment. It should act vigorously to secure land, erect buildings, and shape events; it will impose, however laudable its intentions, its preferences on others who may not share them. If it should be passive and let events take their course, it will implicitly choose a certain kind of environment--one, perhaps, in which all Cambridge slowly becomes like Harvard and M.I.T. until we find that we are no longer an urban university, but one which has allowed there to grow up around itself a kind of inner...
...times are no longer adequate to, or functional for, what the University has become. The myth of the traditional University remains what could be called the Barzun ideology, or the concept of the liberal arts College, or the dream of the temple of learning, disinterested and politically or socially neutral. The reality is of course quite different, as shown by the growth of specialization, research and involvement in public affairs. This discrepancy explains why, in every confrontation, events are actually shaped by the idiosyncracies of the particular University under stress...