Word: neutralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crisp Style. In assessing his colleague. Chief Judge John R. Brown of the Fifth Circuit says that Carswell has "the ideal combination of physical vigor and dynamic personality." He is not, says Brown, "a neutral spirit." In contrast to his pleasant, gregarious manner off the bench, Carswell's decision-writing style is crisp and cautious. New York University Associate Law Professor Leroy Clark, a black former Legal Defense Fund lawyer in Florida, calls Carswell "very bright." But, adds Clark, "he was probably the most hostile judge I've ever appeared before. He was insulting to black lawyers...
...Harvard Coop Board of Directors decided by a nine-to-one vote last Wednesday to remain neutral in the dispute involving the sale of G. E. products. The decision means that the Coop will continue to sell G. E. merchandise...
...Cain, the Bible's first murderer, and Ham, the disrespectful son of Noah; the reason for their exclusion from the priesthood is "the mark of Cain." Though racist 19th century Christian preachers once advanced similar arguments, the Mormons go farther, maintaining that in a spiritual "preexistence" blacks were neutral bystanders when other spirits chose sides during a fight between God and Lucifer. For that failure of courage, they were condemned to become the accursed descendants of Cain...
...solid checking game, both in the neutral zone and around the Crimson...
...order for the Faculty or the Committee to assume a neutral position, the Administration would have to be subject to discipline. Neither the Code nor the Committee is designed to prosecute the Corporation and the Administration. The Faculty would have to establish legal power over the Corporation in order to punish it. This would require a change in the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a very unlikely event...