Word: doubletalk
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...Donald Adams is usually a mild-mannered and stolid citizen. But the more he looked at a paragraph of literary doubletalk in a current poetry magazine, the more it "acted as bellows to my smouldering disgust." He was really burning by the time he got down to writing his Sunday column in the New York Times Book Review. Wrote he: the trouble with poetry today is the way most critics write about it. "They worry at poetry like a terrier with a rat. They are bleeding it to death...
That's the way Radio Paris started its midnight program. The long-haired doubletalk-Dada love poetry and surrealist verse by Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali and Louis Aragon-went on for 15 minutes...
Other British commodity exchanges wondered what was coming. All Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps would say was that the matter must be studied "case by case in the light of special circumstances, and cannot be decided on any preconceived theoretical basis." Translated, this doubletalk meant that the Government would see how well it did as a cotton dealer before it takes over any other commodity markets...
...named John ("Dizzy") Gillespie, "looking for a way to emphasize the more beautiful notes in swing," explained: "When you hum it, you just naturally say 'bebop, be-de-bop.' " What be-bop amounts to: hot jazz overheated, with overdone lyrics full of bawdiness, references to narcotics, and doubletalk...
...Poles understand democracy, and not in the Western sense." This was perhaps the first time that a fundamental difference between the Russian and Western meanings of "democracy" had been proclaimed in an official statement. It served notice that the Yalta agreement on "free and unfettered elections" was also Yaltese doubletalk...