Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reader's place to appreciate them-well, that is not a bad division of labor. The novelist who follows this course becomes a presence in his own novel. A cinematic kind of novelizing is more fashionable now, in which the page is a movie screen, wondrous but neutral. Jones's writing is less glittery but more personal, very high-level gossip that is fascinating because, like all gossip, it defines the gossipist...
...Safavids-right down to the 20th century, when the Shah's father, General Reza Khan, a professional soldier of near-peasant origin, seized power in a 1921 army coup. He was ousted by the British and Russians during World War II for inconveniently keeping his strategic country neutral, and the present Shah took over...
...first statesmen to congratulate Kreisky was West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. That was particularly appropriate. Both men spent the war years in neutral Sweden, and both are committed to a reformist, pragmatic brand of socialism...
...bias against the short man, Saul Feldman told a recent meeting of the American Sociological Association, that no one notices it-no one, that is, except the short man himself. To Sociologist Feldman of Case Western Reserve University, that point is well illustrated by the language. Instead of the neutral "What is your height?", the question is always the invidious "How tall are you?" Dishonest cashiers shortchange customers, and people who lack foresight are shortsighted...
...Richard Nixon lives in a Skinner box," Kennedy said. "He responds only to rewards and punishments that his senses can appreciate. Your silence is not neutral in his environment--it counts distinctly as pleasure. And this reinforces the rewards he gets from his own narrow constituency whenever he appeals to their basest instincts and panders to their prejudices...