Word: doubletalk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer fill-in to another 180 papers. More ac curate and less sensational than Pear son and Anderson, less likely to magnify trivial exclusives but also far less enterprising than Evans and Novak, Mankiewicz and Braden produce a stylish, knowledgeable column that offers sharp opinions and no doubletalk...
...NEITHER doubletalk nor a long-lost quote from Lewis Carroll, that strange verse is really an old familiar nursery rhyme. Its translation, and the history of its colorful but dying language, is reported this week by Los Angeles Correspondent Timothy Tyler. See THE NATION: "Harpin' Boont in Boonville...
...Products. By comparison, Tillie's life has hardly any fizz at all. Serious, well-trained in sociology, she meets a gimp-legged skirt-chaser and hopeless vulgarian named Pete Seltzer. His public wit runs to doubletalk and the invention of nonsense "end" products: after-shaving mints, dietetic shampoo, reversible mayonnaise. "He thinks Cameroons are some kind of cookie," she reflects bitterly. But they marry anyhow and live together until their nine-year-old son dies of lingering leukemia...
...Union claims the right to intervene in any Socialist country where the practice and purity of Soviet-style Communism is threatened. Popularly called "the Brezhnev Doctrine," after Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the new Soviet policy poses a threat to the sovereignty of any Communist country. No matter what doubletalk Moscow ideologues may use to disguise it, the new policy is nothing less than a doctrine of Russian imperialism-and other Communists recognize it as such and deeply resent...
...dwelt on his refusal to debate. In Akron, he cut short his speech by ten minutes after well-organized demonstrators in the balcony reduced his rally to a shambles. The hecklers, mainly students, shouted "Debate! Debate! Why don't you debate?" Elsewhere, they toted signs condemning DOUBLETALK or demanding SPECIFICS, NOT GENERALITIES...