Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, dictatorships too have their problems of acknowledging stories they can't conceal, or giving a televised look of actuality to their own version of news. Chinese newspapers, in the confessional mood of the new era, speak of "lies and distortions" in the past and admit that they "still often carry false, boastful and untrue reports." South Korea's newly installed army dictator, Chun Doo Hwan, has ordered Ms press to proclaim that the U.S. fully supports his rule, despite repeated State Department protests that the U.S. objects to his suppression of opposition. South Koreans aren...
...tranquil facade cannot conceal the fact that the gulf has become a focal point of geopolitical tension. The demise of Iran as a regional superpower has left the area in a vacuum; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has stirred fear. If the vision of a clash between Moscow and Washington over oil is the ultimate nightmare of gulf leaders, Iran's revolution has raised immediate concerns over regional rivalry and internal stability...
...high. According to Moscow-based European diplomats, Soviet authorities have stopped burying soldiers with full military honors in an apparent attempt to divert attention from the deaths. Many of the seriously wounded have been flown for treatment to hospitals in East Germany instead of the U.S.S.R., apparently to conceal the extent of casualties...
Dirksen's oratory succeeded in part because it functioned simultaneously as a satire upon oratory, in somewhat the way that Mae West has always been a walking satire upon sex. But all of and splendor, with his rapscallion rhapsodies and hints of the mountebank, could not conceal a small truth about what that ahead for the ancient discipline of rhetoric: an art that wanes into self-mockery is dying...
...America at least, a tradition of high rhetoric has always competed with a sentimental worship of the inarticulate. In 1939's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the sleekly senatorial Claude Rains attempts to conceal his corruption behind an impressive tapestry of rhetoric. But Jimmy Stewart, barely able to complete a sentence, engagingly stumbling over his words, wins out because his sheer radiant American virtue shines through the manipulative deceits inherent in language. It is possible that Adlai Stevenson lost the presidency twice in part because he spoke a little too well. This theme returned passionately in the countercultural...