Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until the 12th century, pictorial references to Jews were generally neutral and even approving. But from roughly A.D. 1100 to 1500, argues Blumenkranz, an Austrian Jew, Judaism was an object of hatred and scorn in Christian art. Mocking the Jews' refusal to eat pork, a sculptured capital from a church in Uppsala, Sweden, depicts Jews drinking at the udders of a sow. Although the Gospels explicitly accuse Roman soldiers of bringing about Jesus' death, some artists went out of their way to show Jews scourging...
...small even to have won a single seat in Bavaria had it not been for Germany's use of proportional representation. The National Democrats have made their gains, such as they are, not by appeals to Nazism but by calling for German reunification and for an independent and neutral foreign policy...
...result the girls' feelings about Tufts were quite favorable. To wit: "very nice and great dates." (Their images of students at other colleges are interesting. M.I.T. men are "very intellectual and--you know" said with a giggle and a wave of the hand, B.U. men are "sort of neutral," and Cliffies, like Harvard men, are divided into two types, long-haired with rimless glasses and a book bag, or dressed for a debutante ball...
...never more than an "impoverished substitute for the real thing." Finally, the report spoke with charity of attempts to rehabilitate four-and five-letter words, such as those used by D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover and by Wayland Young in Eros Denied; it advocated accepting "neutral terms like penis, vagina and ejaculation" in the universal English vernacular...
Because of Singleterry, almost the whole first half was played in Crusader territory, but Harvard was unable to shift its offense out of neutral. The Crimson got close enough for one field-goal try, but the kick by Jim Reynolds was short and to the left. The nearest thing to a first-half score was a pass by the Crusader's workhorse quarterback Mark Doherty which was dropped in the end zone as the half ended...