Word: neutralism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mute, because Updike told their stories from a distance, not trusting in first person narrators. Lately Updike has tried to say things that cannot be said in a neutral, realistic narration, things that sound intrusive from an impersonal narrator...
...exports are an instrument of foreign policy. In the years immediately following World War II, arms-exporting states carefully weighed ?and often rejected?offers from foreign customers. The U.S. has exported weapons in order to bolster anti-Communist regimes; a congressional act of 1951 explicitly forbade sales to neutral nations and insisted that purchasing countries contribute to "the defensive strength of the free world." To the Soviets, arms sales to the Middle East have been a means of challenging Western influence. By transferring arms to India, the Russians sought to create a regional counterforce to Peking...
...MOST important suggestion that the University has chosen to forget is that Harvard, just because of its existence in the city, can no longer take a neutral course...
...somehow the University has managed to stay on that neutral course, steering clear of community groups, feigning neighborhood participation, and failing to be responsive to the reasonable requests of local residents...
...kind of candle sputtering bravely in the dark ness. It was made by Boston's WGBH, which used two field producers, an Egyptian newsman and an Israeli tele vision journalist. They could not visit each other's homelands, but they worked together closely, if often argumentatively, in neutral Switzerland to shape each program. The series is now being offered all over the Middle East. Though no nation has accepted it yet, Israel, Jordan and Egypt have expressed interest in it. One cannot help believing that if this moderate, moderating voice could be heard in the area...