Word: newspeak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eighteen years and one angst-guzzler later (Something Happened), Heller re-styles old reliable. Daneeka's catch-22 is now Potomac newspeak and the Doc himself is reincarnated as Ralph Newsome, a presidential aide who attempts to lure Bruce Gold, Ph.D., into Government service. Gold, a college professor, has caught the President's eye by favorably reviewing the Chief Executive's book, My Year in the White House, You can do and say anything you want, says Newsome, "as long as it's everything we tell you to say and do in support of our policies...
...methodical presentation of diplomatic cables, congressional battles and Vietnamese invasions is so utterly vacant of the gut feel of that era. For those who cut their political teeth on venomous demonstrations against the war and Nixon as its perpetuator, there will be little satisfaction in the excerpts' Ziegleresque newspeak. Nixon does not say he was wrong. Neither does he launch into a wild defensive screed of self-justification. Again, he seems to be trying to make everything he did seem ordinary, and even to make the context of his decisions similarly mundane. The mobilization of America's youth against...
Harvard and like institutions have invented an entire vocabulary of Newspeak to get around Title IX and Affirmative Action, with words like "equal access," "quality," and "standards." (Remember that George Orwell defined Newspeak as the introduction of new words and the simultaneous elimination of old ones, so as to make only the allowed thoughts thinkable.) Indeed, Harvard's tradition is so entirely based on discrimination that the present furor about the Currier House course makes one wonder where all the advocates of equality and justice have been all this time. Certainly they have not been crying with outrage...
...Peking Newspeak...
Mother Jones, or, in its own definition, "A Magazine for the Rest of Us," is as it stands now, a magazine largely for Movement people. It's for people like Richard Parker, who claims behind the packaged Newspeak of the magazine's soliciting letter that he's interested in "a politics as if people mattered," that after learning "How I relate to people," he writes that he's tired of the society he lives in, and "can't honestly support it." Mother Jones, in short, is the Time magazine of "The Movement" or "The Left" or whatever it is people...