Word: doubletalked
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...America's refugee publications. Title: Tricolor. Descent: from London's La France Libre, blitz-born champion of French resistance. Contents: literary appreciations of the French underground; elegant patter on a Paris midinette's chic triumph over her ersatz clothes; letters of Marcel Proust; essays on Vichy doubletalk, wartime Paris, Painter Pierre Bonnard. Editor: André Labarthe, brilliant ex-physicist, intellectual foe of Vichy, onetime friend of Charles de Gaulle, former Giraud minister, now an OWIer...
Some 7,000,000 radio fans would find life harder to bear without Vic and Sade. They would also find it difficult to explain why. It is a soap opera in which nothing much ever happens. But it is as American as doubletalk. Vic, a typical, unpretentious bookkeeper for a kitchenware company, and Sade, his natively bright, homebound wife, in eleven years have built themselves considerable prestige as symbols of U.S. small-town living...
...high officer in General Eisenhower's command admitted that such doubletalk had been intentional. Now the spokesman said he was "a little ashamed" of having told the U.S. people, the day before ". . . not the complete truth." The complete truth was what the Senate Military Affairs Committee demanded next day from War Secretary Stimson...
...Alvarez has already written one medical bestseller, Nervous Indigestion. Laymen like his cheerful, chatty style, free from scientific doubletalk, full of Aesopic richness of anecdote, character sketches in which many a reader may recognize himself. Sample anecdotes...
With these characteristic words, Harold Le( )Cla(i)r(e)* I ekes throws a drawerful of gantlets into a gallery of faces and squares off. In his 350 pages Curmudgeon Ickes knots himself up in every possible variety and paradox of his personality, exposing himself mercilessly to his own doubletalk. To discourage any who might feel sympathy for America's most vilified celebrity, Ickes never fails to put his worst foot forward, to beg for brickbats ("Me? I don't mind.") Few readers will be deceived by this psychological strategy. Out of these ungainly, ranting pages...