Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home's purposes are varied. Sister Sheila, director of group care, explains. "The whole philosophy here is not just to care for the children--though of course we do that. It's a place to be a child. It's a neutral setting where they don't have to feel guilty about living in a foster family, nor do they have to call the ambulance, or pick up Mother at the bar. It also is to restore self-worth; they are worth caring for, and that's why they're here. Sometimes I look at them and think...
...reads the great classical discussions anymore, and they're all tired of being put off by a neutral world," he says...
...intelligent artist in Northern Europe, after the work of Picasso and Braque became internationally known, could sidestep it. But the expressionists were not fundamentally interested in the neutral subjects of cubism: the quotidian landscape of cafe table, brown guitar, pipe, bottle and chair. Franz Marc, who died in the trenches at 36, turned to the cubist vocabulary of facets, prisms and sliding rays to express his pantheistic view of nature, the Eden of happy animals: "We will no longer paint the forest or the horse as they please us or appear to us, but as they really...
Turow suggests the Law School also has an effect on the character of its students. The school "reinforces a tradition that emphasizes achievement, which is not really a neutral term because it buys in at a certain level that says, 'Don't worry about what it means, just achieve. Go out there and practice on Wall Street--that's classy law. Don't worry about the rest...
Harvard has remained neutral throughout the drawn-out debate. President Bok said last week he only hopes that whichever developer receives final approval will get to work right away...