Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard is not now, nor has it ever been, a neutral pillar, of beaming morality. Harvard, with other institutions of hugher learning, serves as a training ground for this country's ruling class and its technocrats...
...sales staff in the couture department works for a 6% commission, with no salary. During the show they lead the cheering from the back, next to the table offering chocolate-covered strawberries, white wine and cheese cookies. Saleswomen are as essential to these customers as hairdressers and reliably neutral escorts. "Well, well, at last, it's my favorite," carols a champion seller, arms out to lead a client into the pink, louvered privacy of the dressing rooms. Once inside, the client keeps up the conversation, almost a stream of consciousness, rambling from how her daddy picked her name...
...feel my blood rising. Finally, I can stand it no longer. "Spring!" I scream as I throw the phone clear across the room in disgust. "Spring!" I scream as my roommate sleepily pokes her head from she bedroom. Still raving, I run from the room. In the distance a neutral voice repeats again and again: "Have a good day, and thank you for calling...
...charge of bias is "Ridiculous," counters Susan E. Keller, a second-year student with self-professed CLS leanings. "I haven't been in a law school class without a political slant. You can't teach law neutrally," she says. Keller believes that conservative professors may claim to be neutral, but they nonetheless slant their classes to present a view that "the status quo is legitimate." Ail classes are political, she says--and this is of course one of the CLS tenets...
When an "independent investigation" of alleged atrocities against Nicaraguan civilians by contra forces was released last month, much of the press, including TIME, treated the report as the work of a neutral observer, even though the document owned up to a number of circumstances that might have raised some questions about its objectivity. For one thing, the investigation was conceived by a Washington law firm (Reichler & Appelbaum) that represents the Sandinista government. For another, the two fact finders, New York Lawyer Reed Brody and Washington Law Student James Bordelon, lived in a government residence while in Managua and were given...