Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalists' privilege, or else tying that privilege to inherently limited situations rather than occupations. A more conservative interpretation of Douglas's notion of "testing" might hold that a citizen's investigative activities qualify him for a journalist's privilege only when he is acting as a completely neutral observer. Any hint of personal involvement in the case would justify denial of the privilege. Such "neutrality" is perhaps what Justice Douglas has in mind when he talks of Caldwell's "affirmatively pursued empirical research...
...York Times Columnist C.L. Sulzberger has been prowling Europe's corridors of power, acquiring a broad acquaintance with Poo-Bahs, potentates, foreign ministers and heads of state. Presented in daily print, the fruits of his labors have customarily shown more care than flare, and a neutral observer might have assumed that if Sulzberger ever got round to a novel, it would be one of those ponderous constructions that bore the reader while portentously trading on the author's expertise...
...that a citizen get a hearing with a right to tell his story and pick whatever holes he can in the opposing version. Often the requirements of that hearing include the right to cross-examine, the right to counsel, and the right to have the decision rendered by a neutral official...
...Bridges, seem to have been poured into creating stereotypes with whom every member of the audience could identify, no matter what their politics. There is a bitter, continuously frustrated campaigner against the war (Kathleen Nolan), a vociferous, tirelessly anti-Communist booster of the military effort (Katherine Justice), and a neutral, who nevertheless gets a little queasy when shown some scenes of maimed North Vietnamese children (Kate Jackson). The movie is painstak∎∎ing in its refusal to take any kind of stand at all, other than a rather strong suggestion that war plays hob with hearth and home...
...point five of the May 8 N.L.F. peace plan, Mr. Kiem stated: "The political forces representing the various social strata and political tendencies in Vietnam, that stand for peace, independence and neutrality, including those persons who, for political reasons, have to live abroad, will enter into talks to set up a provisional coalition government based on the principle of equality, democracy and mutual respect with a view to achieving a peaceful, independent, democratic and neutral South Vietnam...