Word: cante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Books. Politically, says Orwell, he wrote "against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism." But where such a stand, in the case of another writer, might be trivial or tedious or pompous, Orwell made it into a passionate starting point from which to scourge all varieties of intellectual cant and hypocrisy. He denounced the Blimps who failed to see that Mussolini and Hitler were enemies of freedom, and he denounced the intellectuals who thought Stalin was any better. Much of his energy was devoted to carrying on a guerrilla campaign against the woolheaded fellow travelers who were poisoning English intellectual life...
...hope that more men like Carnegie Foundation President Carmichael will step forward categorically on the side of truth to expose this generation's educators and fellow travelers for the brood of nihilistic vipers that they are ? One would almost believe so, when pondering the inane and pious cant that appears as the profound soul-searching of the majority of contributors to Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe series...
...Nineteenth century thieves' cant: a blackjack...
...release of a letter he had written to Ike last August: "Since I have known you as a major, I have grown to respect and admire your character, ability, gentleness but firmness and, above all, the high purposes that have motivated you in all circumstances. Your abhorrence of cant, hypocrisy, intolerance in all fields of human relations have brought affection with respect and admiration...
...fact, for the non-Communist world, the most striking quality in Stalin's statement was the absence of the customary cant about capitalist "encirclement of the Soviet Union" and the imminent plans of U.S. "warmongers." Instead, Stalin seemed to pooh-pooh the danger of an attack on Russia, and said that the real threat of war arises from the imperialistic rivalries between capitalist countries for foreign markets. He chided his subordinates, faithfully clinging to yesterday's party line, for forgetting their lessons that "wars between capitalist countries [are] inevitable." Comrades who think that ideological rivalry between the Communist...