Word: doublethink
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...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...
...results. The paratroop officers made a calculated decision to embrace the "political fiction" of the camp. They signed petitions condemning capitalism, accused themselves of monstrous crimes, made a noisy show of repentance, and even wrote a "progressive" hymn in which each word had a double meaning. They answered the doublethink of the Communists with doubletalk manifestoes that had "just the right amount of exaggeration to make anyone with any sense howl with laughter...
...doublethink of Communism, continues Tertz, has even more ominous overtones : "So that prisons should vanish forever, we built new prisons. So that all frontiers should fall, we surrounded ourselves with a Chinese Wall. So that work should become a rest and a pleasure, we introduced forced labor. So that not one drop of blood should be shed any more, we killed and killed and killed...