Word: doubletalk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholic couples, according to the Ryder-Westoff survey, have adopted some form of birth control other than rhythm. And though some Catholic doctors will not prescribe the pill for them, many others will. In heavily Catholic Massachusetts, its use is widespread. Says Norwood Gynecologist Francis C. Mason: "Despite the doubletalk from Rome, the pill is the most acceptable method of birth regulation. Use of the pill by a large Catholic population acts to make them psychologically sound and to create
...FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. Director Richard Lester's screen version of the Broadway hit musical has a grossly libidinous libretto, some charmingly scummy sets, and a quartet of top comedians (Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Buster Keaton, Phil Silvers) who dance and doubletalk their way through the back alleys of Nero's Rome...
That kind of doubletalk must have mystified his listeners. Then he added: "Until we are again in calmer waters, I believe that I owe it to South Africa to take personal responsibility for the safety of the state...
...Some Doubletalk. While the actions are clear enough, the words coming out of Indonesia are still often contradictory, partly because Sukarno continues to boast that he is boss and partly because the triumvirate has to indulge in a certain amount of doubletalk as long as he is around. Last week Foreign Minister Malik announced that Djakarta would recognize Singapore, adding that it was "a measure to intensify konfrontasi with Malaysia"-even though it is clearly a gesture in the opposite direction. Malik says that Indonesia will rejoin the United Nations; Sukarno insists that "Indonesia will never go back until...
...Soviet Doubletalk. It had all the earmarks of a do-nothing Congress, but Brezhnev jolted a few staunch anti-Stalinists by proposing that the Soviet Party Presidium be renamed Politburo -a title that won infamy under General Secretary Stalin prior to 1952. But Moscow City Boss Nikolai Egorychev, who proposed a return to the General Secretary label, hastened to point out that both terms were "Leninist" in origin. Egorychev was tapped by his superiors to deliver a lengthy speech explaining the difference between the sins of Stalin and the heroism of the Stalin era, a piece of Soviet doubletalk that...