Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obviously is not a neutral observer on the subject of higher learning. Too often, though, his biases muddle his attempt at a sober piece of work. One could easily come away from the book thinking that all the good being done in America's universites is the work of administrators who need to overcome the retarding influence of a distracted, if not apathetic faculty...
...times, inferring the meaning of the constitutional text from its structure and history. Sometimes contemporary problems not specifically mentioned in the Constitution must be addressed through the reasonable extension of principles embedded within the Constitution. But on issues where the meaning of the Constitution cannot be inferred in a neutral and principled way, it is the more representative branches of the Government that should decide...
...point the battle came down to blocking tenure for rivals. Bok, normally protective as a tiger of Harvard's own, concedes, "There are clearly some problems among the faculty." The uncontentious hiring last spring of three neutral and distinguished professors from the outside and tenure grants -- also peacefully engineered -- to two talented junior faculty have been hailed as signs that the storm is passing...
Associations, in fact, are the key to understanding New Age music. Perhaps mindful of Stravinsky's famous dictum that music is emotionally neutral, many contemporary composers of serious music have sought to expunge all extramusical references from their work. New Age music, on the other hand, is frankly, if often banally, evocative: of waterfalls, wheatfields, even the mysterious but benign resonance of deep space. All nature is grist for its mill. Former Bebop Jazzman Paul Winter, who is now making New Age records, lists his inspirations as he "African mbira (a hand-held instrument played with the fingers or thumbs...
...compromise with with my mother was that I would fly into Switzerland, the so-called neutral area of the big war zone. That was really my first and last attempt to be safe and avoid the imagined Libyan villains. From there I rode a train to Paris and stayed, forgetting my mother's antiterrorist lessons...