Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Darlington, interviewed between doses of a history reading assignment in his rooms at 49 Jarvis Court yesterday, wants to study law here; and he looks at his mother's suit against the University as a highly interesting legal twist. "I am very neutral in the case," he said. "I sympathize with the University, since I am studying here, and I want to see justice done...
Last week, devout Catholics who were also Rotarians were told by their spiritual father, Bishop Eugene Limoges of Mont-Laurier, that this was wrong. In a 900-word pastoral letter read from all diocesan pulpits, Bishop Limoges said: "Catholics cannot be neutral [in effect, they cannot divorce their social life from Catholicism]. . . . Instead of frequenting non-Catholic . . . clubs, they should establish, for themselves exclusively, similar associations." Specifically mentioned: Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis, Elks, Moose...
...Patterson depended largely on whether they agreed with him-a difficult task. Many people liked his paper, but few loved him in a way that public figures are often loved. (Around the News only ex-Theater Critic Burns Mantle, 72, dared call him "Joe.") It was hard to be neutral about Joe Patterson's News. It was widely hated (even by people who could not stop reading it) for its blind prejudices, and the adroit, insidious, vindictive way it advocated them...
...thriller is "a daydream appropriate to a totalitarian age . . . a distilled version of the modern political scene, in which such things as mass bombings of civilians . . . torture to obtain confessions . . . execution without trial . . . drownings in cesspools, systematic falsification of records and statistics . . . bribery and quislingism are normal and morally neutral, even admirable when they are done in a large and bold way." Power, and its high priest, the bully, are becoming democratic idols...
Wellesley (the town) was gerrymandered by Republicans in 1940 to throw its straight-ticket G.O.P. weight into a neutral district, so George R. Kelly '44 will take the stump next fall to see if his Irish-veteran-Harvard background can put him, as a Democrat, into the State House of Representatives...