Word: doubletalked
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Time was when Joe Louis let his eloquent fists do his talking for him. But last week the ex-heavyweight champion found himself shadow-boxing with an elusive opponent: racial discrimination, disguised in doubletalk. Joe fumbled for the right words, then angrily called it "the biggest fight of my life." Specifically, Joe was squaring off against the Professional Golfers' Association, which allows only "Caucasians" to enter a P.G.A.-sponsored tournament...
...escape clauses. Nonetheless, continuing inspection was a seeming concession which five years ago would have been hailed with hope and cheers. But as of last week, when Soviet Russia's words without deeds no longer had the power to stir, U.S. Representative Ernest A. Gross dismissed it as "doubletalk without meaning...
...early years fitted him for the Communist aristocracy-a poor childhood, the Czar's army at 18, underground intrigue with secret printing presses, a term in prison, escape. In exile, he became boss of the party's international "transport," which is Communist doubletalk for the smuggling of arms, money and secret communications. "As long as Papasha is there," Lenin remarked admiringly one day in 1904, "we shall have transport...
...admit it is universal for Soviet Russians to use doubletalk when speaking to a foreigner (who is recognized by his clothes before he even opens his mouth). But in my 30 years of life in Russia, I never found enthusiasm for the regime to be anything but doubletalk, to be employed on formal occasions; the universal real attitude towards the authorities was one of reluctant submission...
...Paris last week (see above), had written her father asking him if he could bring Andrei Gromyko back to her as a present. Delegate Davies couldn't, but Britain's irrepressible Columnist Nat Gubbins promptly seized on the idea as perfect punishment for the man whose evasive doubletalk had left the West's representatives limp with frustration. Last week in his Sunday Express column, Gubbins gave a terrifying picture of what Sally might do to Gromyko in a few minutes' chat...