Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...break the deadlock, Indonesia's Foreign Minister Adam Malik suggested that the talks be held on one of his country's ships in neutral waters. Malik recalled Johnson's remark last fall that "a neutral ship on a neutral sea would be as good a meeting place as any." He also recalled that negotiations aboard a U.S. Navy transport led to Indonesia's independence...
...foremost possibility was Indonesia's biggest vessel, the dilapidated, Soviet-built cruiser Irian, once referred to by wags as "Sukarno's floating cocktail lounge." Washington accepted the proposal last week. Hanoi rejected it on the ground that Indonesia, which thwarted a Communist takeover 2½ years ago, is "not neutral." Chuckled one British official: "Why don't we try to get the North Koreans to offer the Pueblo...
Since research requires objectivity, the academic has no place in politics (at least while on the job) and conversely, should not be judged by political standards. A campus should be a neutral haven where political gladiators can meet with their guards down, and one gladiator should not take alarm when he sees the university conferring with the other...
Thinking Weed. Durrell's representation of the cultural climate is Merlin otherwise known as The Firm, an international syndicate with tentacles in all the world's major markets. It is the embodiment of 20th century scientism, an emotionally neutral, self-perpetuating system of techniques that can be used for good or evil. Drawn into The Firm's cushy embrace is Inventor Felix Charlock, who sees himself as a "thinking weed," a pun on Pascal's definition of man as a "thinking reed." The Firm wants Charlock for his new recording device, which leads to the development...
Jeers & Whistles. Though Novotny is gone, much of his handiwork remains behind. Last week the demands for specific reforms continued to multiply. More than 10,000 students crowded into the massive Prague Congress Hall, where they questioned party leaders and demanded everything from a neutral foreign policy to removal of the red star from the nation's coat of arms. When Forestry Minister Josef Smrkovsky rose to ask the students why they had omitted a pledge of friendship to the Soviet Union from one of their resolutions, the hall echoed with jeers and whistles...