Word: doublethinking
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...workday was cut to ten hours. Husbands and wives were to be permitted their own room, the unappetizing mess halls were shut down, and commune members were allowed to keep such personal belongings as "houses, bicycles, clothing, blankets, quilts, radios, watches and bank deposits." There was even a typical, doublethink explanation for this return to capitalism. "The small freedom within the big collective-this is dialectical unity...
...happened over a U.N. speech by South Africa's Foreign Minister Eric Louw, who offered a provocative whitewash of his country's apartheid policy, previously condemned by the U.N. While he was clearly practicing doublethink in his contention that South Africa's rigidly repressed blacks are actually enjoying blissful freedom and enlightened education, Louw also uttered some truths and half-truths that hit the mark. Example: he stressed the Africans' high vulnerability to blandishments by the Soviet bloc, "which conveniently ignores conditions existing in Hungary and in the Soviet Union's occupied or colonial territories...
Slogans & Doublethink. Spain's bloody ground became a moral gymnasium for all the liberals of the West; theirs is by now a depressing record of human illusion and disillusion. On the level of national policy, the story is equally dismal -the impotence of the League of Nations, the nonintervention policy of Britain and France and the arms Embargo Act in the U.S. leaving the door open for intervention by Stalin and the Axis. Historian Thomas' sober judgment is that German-Italian intervention may have just barely tipped the scales in Franco's favor; Stalin could have...
...face of it, Stalin was the loser on his investment of ?88 million sterling. But Stalin got a great hunk of Spain's gold reserve, and-in addition to the preparation for future political maneuvers-Stalin achieved his greatest triumphs of Communist propaganda, doublethink in action. "War for Peace" was his gimmick. It was not in vain that George Orwell fought in Spain. He served with the POUM, a Trotskyite outfit marked for liquidation, was wounded in battle-and thus lived to write 1984, in which "War Is Peace...
...schools of Alabama, Georgia. Mississippi and South Carolina, integration is nonexistent. In Louisiana, it consists of four little Negro girls in two New Orleans schools. Fighting case by case against "the long arm of judicial tyranny.'' extremists decry race "mongrelization" by the "Jew-backed N.A.A.C.P." Even moderates doublethink up evasions by "every legal means...