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...free to travel about the country addressing meetings. On these occasions, he manages with a 'bridled tongue' to boldly play safe. And he has had more freedom to write articles in which he shows the result of his acquired caution by avoiding disturbing statements [with] well-intended doubletalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Higher, the Worser | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...make up the difference by cooking up things to put on the screen. Some of the devices were effective and to the point-e.g., the simple scoreboards and graphs that gave the returns at a glance (but not the detail-packed blackboard charts that looked like visual doubletalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Not Much to Look At | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...load off her chest. The load: a 663-page, tightly packed book called: Stalin and German Communism, A Study in the Origins of the State Party.* The book was more than the heavy-going history its heavy Germanic title implied. It was also an intimate, encyclopedic exposure of the doubletalk and doublecrossing among top-level Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Of All the Virtues . . . | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Communist, being called a Trotskyite or Menshevik is not the ludicrous doubletalk which it is to American ears; it is a great deal more serious than an American being accused of embezzling or Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Best Years of Our Lives | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Propaganda (Mon.-Fri. 6:15 p.m., CBS). Educator Lyman Bryson dissects some doubletalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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