Word: newspeak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Newspeak. Week in, week out, the burden that weighs most heavily is, of course, the war in Viet Nam. In three statements during the week, Secretary of State Dean Rusk bluntly and brilliantly reaffirmed the U.S. position (see Box), while the President emphasized that he had no moral alternative to the war unless the Communists would give...
...government last week made a special point of deriding as "fabricated legend" the breathless U.S. press reports of last month that Hanoi had offered to begin peace talks in late 1964. The Communists' fanatical belief that they will conquer South Viet Nam found expression in the weirdly convoluted Newspeak used by the North Vietnamese regime to defend its aggression: "The whole world, including the American people, now are stirringly supporting the patriotic struggle of the South Vietnamese people. Why, then, have the people in North Viet Nam not the right to support their kith and kin in the South...
Ever since The Lonely Crowd (1950) proved there was big money in publishing serious sociology, the book trade has been gleefully exporting the traditional fascination of Americans with themselves, playing midwife to a new generation of moral muckrakers with a newspeak all their own. With indifferent success, these unHidden Persuaders have warned The Status Seekers and The Organization Man against the perils of The Power Elite and The Image Makers in The Self-Conscious Society. Latest to ask "Whither America?" is ex-Rhodes Scholar Daniel J. Boorstin, 48, who teaches U.S. history at the University of Chicago when...
...Words ought to be germane to the stuff about," he complained, then set about writing an account of one soldier's war that relied on a language of fragmentation, jarred image and newspeak. In Parenthesis was published in England in 1937. Now, 25 years and several wars later, it has been published here. It is impressively germane to the stuff about...
...call for a "serious study and research for the purpose of seeking positive alternatives" to the arms race. Eagle had suggested that Inscomm (Newspeak for Student Council) might sponsor discussions, referenda, and student meetings to explore public issues. The other