Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hart acknowledges the problems of seeking a reconciliation with the Daleys and Meanys, but he hopes for a back-scratching kind of relationship eventually: "I'd guess that Daley will at least remain neutral, or else give us some cooperation." The situation with Meany is similar. One reason for Hart's optimism is that he perceives the Democratic opposition to McGovern to be psychological rather than ideological. "It's a struggle for power and control," he explains. "It's the old versus the new, the passing of an order. To a large degree, the opposition...
...somewhat wistful projection. Indeed, there are many Democrats neutral or even unsympathetic toward McGovern who believe that if the party denied the nomination to a man who had legally amassed 1,300 or more delegates through the primaries and caucuses, then the party would be in ruins, the nomination scarcely worth having. Perhaps naturally, Humphrey dismisses that idea: "The party is weary of temper tantrums of juveniles who, if they don't get their way, are going to bolt." But Indiana's Senator Birch Bayh, himself an early presidential contender, shares a foreboding that a convention defeat...
...oppose Caesar--as the Middle Ages had sided with him--Shakespeare carefully saw to it that the play as a whole took no stand. The text is ambiguous, the positions balanced; hence a director may easily tilt his production toward one view or the other. Kahn takes here a neutral stand, and leaves it to the audience to weigh the evidence...
...said explained why the Rogers Committee was finding it difficult to get faculty members to serve on the appeal committee. He continually called for new appeal procedures, claiming that it was unfair for one party to the dispute--the GSD--to choose the appeal committee. He wanted a neutral body to select the committee and coordinate its procedures...
...added that he did not think the black community intended this to happen. Wylie supports Bair, but Mayor Ackermann and Charles M. Pierce, the black liberal on the School Committee, favor Cheatham. Peter G. Gesell, the fourth member of the liberal majority on the Committee, appears to be neutral...