Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chill and exasperation, Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber arrived in Parliament last week to perform that ancient British rite of spring, the presentation of the annual budget. The document that he produced from the traditional red leather box was a curious one. Barber himself described it as "broadly neutral," and it was a sort of plea for economic truce. Most noticeably, it dispensed an assortment of minor gifts for practically everybody. Unemployment and sickness benefits were raised by $2.46 a week and pensions by $3.94 (at a total cost of $1.4 billion). Taxes on children's clothing, candy...
When Chief Negotiator Harlington Wood returns today from top-level meetings in Washington, he may bring back a plan providing for a neutral meeting place. One hang-up in negotiations so far has been the Interior Department's refusal to negotiate in the "armed situation" that exists at Wounded Knee...
...Late in 1971, when union bosses were complaining that wage-price controls were rigged against workers, Meany personally wet-blanketed the President; he even forbade the union orchestra to play Ruffles and Flourishes when Nixon arrived at the AFL-CIO convention. But a rapprochement began when Meany turned benevolently neutral in last year's election. Last week, if music had been called for when Nixon addressed a closed-door session of the AFL-CIO executive council in Bal Harbour, Fla., it would have had to be Let Me Call You Sweetheart. Meany and Nixon paraded...
Since suspected criminals would not be "neutral observers," this doctrine would take care of the hypothetical "sham" newspapers. However, it would also involve a considerable amount of de facto discrimination against part-time, politically active journalists. Journalists who marched in peace marches would not be allowed to withhold information in cases arising out of those marches. And it is even questionable whether most full-time journalists would put up with this sort of restriction on their private lives...
STILL, IN PRINCIPLE, this criteria could be extended to any citizen who decided to take up an observer's position in order to "enlarge his intellectual viewpoint." (Since it is actions, and not sentiments that are here required to be neutral, a journalist needn't express a neutral point of view. "Ideological plugola" would be allowed.) And because most citizens would be unwilling to always adopt such a disinterested stance, the instances where such a privilege would be granted would be inherently limited. Perhaps fulfillment of the traditional ideal of neutrality, at least with respect to actions, is the price...