Word: doubletalker
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...differences with the West, Khrushchev hoped that 1963 would solve "urgent problems fraught with new crises," a bit of doubletalk about Berlin that could fit any eventuality. The first would probably come at next week's congress of the East German Communist Party, which Khrushchev will attend...
...Cuba crisis stayed at the top of the world's agenda. Restless and annoyed after days of Russian doubletalk and Castro bombast. President Kennedy held a long meeting with the National Security Council, called the Joint Chiefs of Staff into session. Messages sped back and forth between Washington and Moscow-but outside the innermost circles of the U.S. and Soviet governments, no one knew what John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were saying, and perhaps promising, to each other...
...think an intelligent, redblooded, white, church-going non-Communist like I ... would avoid ending up in the nude." JC, who tells about half the story in a stilted diary, is risibly riddled with middle-class hypocrisy. He believes in, and mouths at inappropriate moments, all the sociological doubletalk, cold war gobbledygook, and commercial jargon that he has ever heard...
...some abstractions by David Smith, whom Hirshhorn began buying 20 years ago. From A (for Archipenko. Armitage and Arp) to Z (for Zadkine, Zajac and Zorach), the exhibition provides a splendid survey of modern sculpture, all the more refreshing because Hirshhorn collected it with no pretensions and no esthetic doubletalk, but simply out of his own compulsive love. When asked why he bought Epstein's Visitation, he explains: "It was a serene, beautiful piece which excited me." Of Käthe Kollwitz' Pietà, he says: "I thought it very powerful." It is-as Hirshhorn himself might have...
...Doubletalk. At Geneva (see above), U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home made Moscow's rough stuff over Berlin Topic A in their first talks with Russia's Andrei Gromyko. As reported by the New York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins, there ensued some uncommonly blunt words among the three statesmen...