Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on the visit of Moscow's Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin [June 28] contained a number of misleading points. The American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry is not an "antiCommunist" group. It is ideologically neutral, being concerned solely with the ame- lioration of the condition of Jews in the Soviet Union. Most unfortunate was the juxtaposing of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and other nations. They are by no means similar. In the U.S.S.R. the government itself is responsible for a program aimed at the religious and cultural restriction of Jews. Indeed, so extensive is this...
...Aretha's variations on "whip it," is another in the long list of sexual terms from blues or jazz that have passed into respectable everyday language. Having come to prominence through such recordings as Aretha's and Mitch Ryder's, "Sock it to me" is now used in a neutral sense as a catch-phrase on TV's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and is a common sight on bumper stickers and even political placards. Jazz (originally a copulative verb) and rock 'n' roll (from a blues lyric, "My baby rocks me with a steady roll") are other examples...
...highly unquotable fashion," comments one Center member, "the function of the Center is to undermine bullshit." Joint Center studies supply data of the sort that, when supplied by the government, is highly unreliable and political. Center members are able to evaluate government programs from a more-or-less neutral position. (The most controversial policy study--The Federal Bulldozer, done by Martin Anderson--was a slashing criticism of the urban renewal program...
There was probably some truth in the contentions of both sides. Ballot boxes from more than 200 of the country's 1,389 precincts either vanished or were so obviously tampered with that they were nullified by the neutral National Election Board. Whatever the irregularities, Arias won by so commanding a margin-with 175,432 votes to Samudio's 133,887-that the outcome could hardly have been altered by the shenanigans of either side...
...last six days, though, the New Yorker's hopes surged again--even amidst the depression felt by many of his suporters throughout the country. His television confrontation with McCarthy, which Kennedy had shunned for weeks earlier, did not appear to lose him any votes. In fact, his supporters and neutral analysts were surprised at the effectiveness of his generally quick, low-key delivery, particularly next to the urbane, professorial manner of McCarthy...