Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most venturesome new show is Enterprise, 13 often entertaining half-hours about American business, starting Friday. But the series falls short in ways familiar to viewers of commercial network documentaries: an aimlessly neutral, "objective" tone; a visual style that is decorative rather than narrative; and frequent excursions into colorful but unimportant byways-the packaging of a bestseller, auctioning of thoroughbred horses, marketing of Kentucky Fried Chicken in Japan...
Sung powerfully over the repetitive picking of a trebly guitar, "Property of Jesus" might easily be dismissed as more divine drivel. Yet the autobiographical content of the piece is striking and poignant. It cannot leave one neutral...
Nevertheless, the men and women who laid the foundations of "the talking cure," as an early analysand called it, had to think of themselves as neutral observers of clinical evidence. Software like the id, the ego and the Oedipus complex became hardware; schools of thought grew into academies of dogma; schisms appeared; colleagues turned into cultists; and Wilhelm Reich, confusing metaphor with reality, saw space invaders...
...South African force still in Angola by week's end, the Luanda government threatened to appeal for help to expel them forcibly. Though the U.S. reversed an earlier pronouncement that it would boycott a planned U.N. special session on Namibia, it was determined to maintain a neutral role. Explained a U.S. official: "We are prepared to take the heat and hope that by taking heat we might facilitate compromises in the long run," meaning that support to South Africa now might translate into a settlement with Pretoria on Namibia later. -By Russ Hoyle. Reported by Marsh Clark/Johannesburg
...tone curiously like that the Government imposed on television when parceling out its scarce and lucrative channels. "Equal time" and the "fairness doctrine" have narrow, legalistic application, but the public has extended these phrases to mean that the entire press should be a neutral, unbiased conduit of information. This notion of the press as a quasi public utility would have enraged the domineering newspaper czars of earlier days. It might also have distressed the constitutional forefathers, who counted on a competitive free press to initiate robust, even unsporting debate...