Word: doublethink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exercise in justification, McCarthy does not succeed. It is nevertheless a revealing and fascinating book, exposing its author as a man still skilled at innuendo and doublethink. Cohn employs these skills in a brief that is fat with incident and quotation-incident that is sometimes only remotely relevant, and quotation that is usually favorable. One of Cohn's own statements is devastating enough: he writes that McCarthy "bought Communism [as an issue] in much the same way as other people purchase a new automobile...
...stripped-down flat, a cell of Maoist incendiaries gather to plan the decline and fall of practically everybody. The short-wave radio blares a ceaseless stream of news from Radio Peking; quotes from the Chairman are read with the stentorian zeal of the newly converted; lectures propound dialectical doublethink ("A revolutionary party carries out a policy whenever it takes an action. If it's not a correct policy, it's a wrong...
...means all as representative as Kenya's. The late President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympic, insisted that "the test of a democratic regime in Africa might not be the actual presence of a second party, so much as whether the regime tolerated individualists." This is not necessarily doublethink. The one-party system is an effort to come to terms with an African tradition of tribal consensus in which the elders made universally accepted decisions. In such a context the concept of a "loyal opposition" is virtually meaningless...
...longer do embarrassed parents have to explain the Facts of Life to embarrassed children. And if anxious young Christians do seek advice on sexual morality from their elders it is all too often expressed in lofty doublethink about the "liberating power of the Gospel" and "freedom from myth and law through Christ." All of which suggests that religion is not saying anything helpful about morality for teenagers, who consequently have to fall back on their common sense. To Dean Robert Fitch of the Pacific School of Religion, that seems to be the best solution after all. In the current issue...
...Masses (he was praised because his style resembled Lenin's!), starred at writers' congresses, where he helped the party put the kibosh on Trotskyites, and called himself a "loyal man of the left." But he traveled no farther than Spain. No ideologue, he never accepted the Marxist doublethink that enabled so many others to blind themselves to the Communists' secret-police tactics, and in For Whom the Bell Tolls he conveyed some of his disillusionment, to the anguish of his left-wing admirers. Dos Passos considered joining the party, but was soon disillusioned and paid...