Word: doublethinkers
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...weekly is also a harsh critic of the West, but to Poles, in their dogged, rear-guard struggle for democracy, Szpilki's sharpest needles are reserved for Communist duplicity and doublethink. In a cartoon that wryly helped to explain its own survival, Szpilki showed a technician standing with a visitor in front of a Rube Goldbergian version of an electronic brain. "You think this criticism machine is big?" said the technician. "You should see the anti-criticism machine...
...Most readers will accept this as sensible advice. But Deutscher goes on to plead elaborately that Russia is not really like 1984 at all-and in this plea he shows a pedantic failure to understand satire. Or could it be that Author Deutscher, like the characters in 1984, uses doublethink without any longer being aware...
Though the Cuban resolution passed by a vote of 55 to 10, 14 nations abstained. Among them: India. Indonesia and every Middle Eastern country save Iran and Iraq. Despite this lingering trace of doublethink, however, there were encouraging signs that bit by bit the Asian and African nations were coming to recognize that Russian imperialism was just as immoral as any other kind. Three weeks ago India's U.N. Delegate Krishna Menon had outraged many, including his own countrymen (see below), by voting against a resolution which called upon Hungary to admit U.N. observers. Last week, under pressure from...
Many a thoughtful man, musing over his second Martini and the evening paper, has had the uneasy feeling that 1984 was much closer. TIME, June 14 brought the era of doublethink several decades closer in an article linking the names of McCarthy and Oppenheimer, setting forth a disturbing philosophy on the responsibilities of governments. The thinking man, and there are many such, was brought up short by such samples as this: "Freedom must always be tailored to the facts of life...
Russia's leaders have flunked their doublethink lessons, according to Barrington Moore, Jr., Senior Research Fellow, of the Russian Research Center. In his new book, "Terror and Progress, USSR," Moore says that the Kremlin is trying to reconcile "the glow of official propaganda" with "daily experience for Soviet citizens" by resorting to "fairly typical bureaucratic cynicism...