Word: neutralizers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Simultaneous Sessions. Servicemen still stop in for "Mother" or "Death Before Dishonor" tattoos, but Tuttle's place is considered neutral ground when it comes to sociological or political disputes. He still marvels at the congeniality of two recent customers who chatted and chuckled together through simultaneous tattoo sessions. One, a black man in a beret, was having a panther tattooed on his back. The other walked out with a red and blue Confederate flag unfurled on his white shoulder...
...approached a number of third countries, asking them to intercede with Hanoi on the P.O.W.s' behalf; among them are Sweden and the U.S.S.R. Sweden, which has diplomatic relations with Hanoi, has made cautious overtures, but has shied away from accepting a role as a neutral site for the internment of P.O.W.s, which the U.S. would like it to do under a Geneva Convention provision. The Communist countries generally express sympathy but contend that the U.S. must work the problem out directly with the North Vietnamese. Since December 1968, the Soviet Union has served as a conveyor belt for packages...
...innovation that Hamburg has instituted is the appointment of a member of the Psychiatry Department as an ombudsman-a neutral investigator in disputes between faculty and administration, faculty and students, or administration and students...
Mullaney says that the university must abandon its role of passive neutrality in political events. "In its attempts to be 'neutral,' the university has sided with those who resist change in power relationships," his article says...
What gives the book flesh and weight, however, is not local color. It is the lecherous old rationalist Restif, whose expert portrait by Karmel, in turn, reflects more of the spirit of revolutionary Paris than any neutral reportage is likely to do. Karmel nudges the reader once or twice too often to see parallels between Restif's Revolution and those of modern times. But he has superbly proved his boast that "this is the book Restif did not write but should have." All it lacks is a modest degree of "truth in packaging...