Word: doubletalk
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...significance of such doubletalk is not lost on either the Rumanians or the Yugoslavs. Both, in fact, are engaged in a series of diplomatic, military and economic initiatives in an effort to protect their relative independence...
...much for the doubletalk that masks Harvard's racist admissions policies. Why should black students come to Harvard? Philip Gay, a minority recruiter in the GSAS, reports that black graduate students feel "alienated" and therefore complete their degree programs and leave as quickly as possible (Crimson, November 5, 1974). Dean McKinney and David Evans, an undergraduate admissions officer, inform us that many black students see Harvard as a white-dominated institution, committed to sheltering "scholars" who promote racist ideas, while systematically discriminating against minority students. Harvard admits that many blacks believe this, yet it does not recognize that their attitude...
...Pride of St. Louis (1952). The story of Dizzy Dean, the baseball star announcer whose words sounded like doubletalk but made sense. Ch. 56, Noon...
Meet the Press. The story of Alan Greenspan, the presidential aide/stockbroker's friend whose words sound like doubletalk. Ch. 4, 12:30 p.m. 1/2 hour...
...general point about the dangers of newsmen getting chummy with their sources, then cuts away to a scene of Ron Ziegler playing tennis with an ABC correspondent, while Tricia Nixon looks on. He shows Stone elaborating on the general slipperiness of public officials, with their easy command of doubletalk, then brings the point home with a fast, funny clip from an old press conference by then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in which McNamara steps around a tough question with the hurried delicacy of a haughty pedestrian avoiding something ugly on the sidewalk...