Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...base" myth seems harmless compared to the view that China's leaders intend that their friendship with the United States serve as a guarantee that the United States would not remain neutral in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack on China. While it is interesting to read Joseph Alsop's report of President Nixon's refusal in February 1969 to join the Soviet Union in a preemptive attack on China's fledgling nuclear facilities, it may be unwarranted to draw the conclusion that the United States would ever sacrifice its basic national security interests for China's sake. During...
Harvard has so far remained formally neutral in the legal battle between a growing conservation movement and Consolidated Edison, although University property will be taken by Con Ed to build a pump-storage facility if the residents of the area lose their fight to keep the company out. Harvard's only contribution to this conservation battle has been President Pusey's 1970 letter to The New York Times aligning the University with the Scenic Hudson Preservation Committee...
...Cambridge is composed of three main sociological elements: 1. college-age students from non-agricultural or rural backgrounds, 2. average low-income urban Americans and 3. a segment of middle-income semi-aware individuals who are neither interested in manipulation nor able to be fully manipulated. They are relatively neutral...
Faith has also been shaken in one of the central beliefs of scientific methodology. Even the most "detached" scientific observers, says Harvard's Mendelsohn, are beginning to realize that they bring certain "metaphysical and normative judgements" to their work. In other words, scientific observations are not "theory-neutral," as scientists once claimed, but are actually "theory-laden...
Since the University's central function is the "pursuit of truth," the committee reasoned, Harvard could "best serve society" by "maintaining a neutral stance as a university on all political and social questions." Only when no room for argument exists among people who accept our basic socio-economic-political system," should the University risk a political stance...