Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EXISTENCE OF HARVARD'S billion itself destroys the myth of the Ivory Tower. You can't be neutral with $1.2 billion, and, in fact, Harvard's investment policy is filled with establishment presumptions. Would it invest in whorehouses? Or gambling casinos? Many of us on this side of State Street would rather finance our educations with prostitution (sexually unbiased, one had better add) than with napalm, if it came to that: and we would want to pressure a company in Harvard's portfolio to switch from one to the other. Harvard and other universities must justify their privileged positions...
...recently, but perhaps the strongest reaction is Garrett Epps' description of the film as "classic fascism." This phrase is clarified as "the quest for the meta-experience of violence as a validation of existence." I'm uncertain what that sentence means exactly, but it appears at least to be neutral between repression and liberation...
...Director of Public Relations for the AFL-CIO and a spokesman for George Meany, said Friday that the nation's largest labor organization is taking no position "except that we are absolutely opposed to George Wallace and we will fight him." Zack added that Meany himself will be "neutral until after both conventions...
Joseph Crangle, chairman of the Democratic Party in New York State, is staying neutral in the Presidential race until after the Empire State's June 20th Primary. He feels, however, that McGovern would have "no problem in getting support from the so-called regular organization." Of the assumption that McGovern could not get regular support, he said. "It seems to be a premise fostered by people who aren't entranced with McGovern's candidacy." Crangle added that "feelings are not the same in 1972 as they were in 1968. McGovern doesn't cause people to feel short...
...COURSE, the experience of the Muskie campaign shows that these party leaders cannot always produce votes to go with their endorsements, and no one is claiming that neutral leaders like Daley and Meany will not support McGovern at the convention. The point is that McGovern is certainly not anathema to party leaders, as some columnists claim...