Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After seeing China and Russia sell their interests down the McKong in the Geneva conventions of 1954 and '61 (which created a supposedly neutral Laos as a buffer zone to protect Thailand from North Vietnam), the North Vietnamese have legitimate reasons to fear another big power settlement. Only Russia can protect them from a China deal, and only China can rescue them from a similar fate at the hands of the Russians. The Nixon trip brought out anew all these hostilities...
...Chinese have shown signs that they would rather conduct relations with Japan, as with other countries, on a bilateral basis and not through America. The Shanghai communique reaffirmed China's desire to see "an independent, democratic, peaceful and neutral Japan." Chou even went so far last week to hint that if would be a positive step for Japan to create a small self-defense military force...
...nearly impossible to remain neutral about Trotsky. Stalin frothed on about him as the counterrevolutionary schemer. George Orwell personified him in Animal Farm as the loquacious pig Snowball, driven out by the dictator pig Napoleon and afterward blamed for everything that goes wrong on the farm. For decades, many liberal intellectuals have overheated their imaginations and their prose on an image of Trotsky as the unbending political outcast and talented literary man. To his closest followers, he was a saint who suffered his final martyrdom in Mexico on Aug. 20, 1940, when a Stalinist assassin buried an Alpine...
...language to build an unbearable tension that his hero cannot dissipate. The girl, Anada, remains almost totally silent in Yanos' presence. She neither denies nor confirms the flirtation that his jealousy sees in all her movements near other men. When he discovers her alone, bathing nude, her actions stay neutral: she does not speak; her eyes reveal neither contempt nor attraction; she leaves the water and walks past him. Yanos is suspended in time, his sexual longing keeping him from turning away, his morality from advancing towards her. He cannot speak, for Anada has offered him no frame of reference...
...evidence for a genetic component in the black-white difference, the overwhelming case is for believing that American blacks have been at an environmental disadvantage. To the extent that variations in the American social environment can promote or retard I.Q., blacks have probably been held back. But a neutral commentator (a rarity these days) would have to say that the case is simply not settled, given our present stage of knowledge." Professor Kelman feels that that was "not enough," but he does not tell us what more he wants...