Word: newspeak
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Through the echoes of the new verbalism, one can sense the distress of that crystal spirit, George Orwell. In Nineteen Eighty-Four he posited the principles of a new tongue. "In Newspeak," wrote Orwell, "words which had once borne a heretical meaning were sometimes retained for the sake of convenience, but only with the undesirable meanings purged out of them." "Goodsex" meant chastity; "crimethink" suggested equality. "The greatest difficulty facing the compilers of Newspeak," continued Orwell, "was not to invent new words, but, having invented them, to make sure what they meant: to make sure what ranges of words they...
...Viet Nam War, in short, has produced its own version of the Orwellian Newspeak: Newcount. TIME Correspondent David Greenway recalls overhearing an American company commander, whose men had just found three enemy bodies, discussing with his platoon leaders what number to report to the battalion commander. "They decided on 20," writes Greenway. "But when I got back to Danang, I found the figure sent to Saigon on this engagement had grown...
...Love Story is the simple story of an amazing commercial enterprise, showing scores of Hollywood hacks how to package a mawkish screenplay into a "promo" for the movie even before it is released. If the literary residue has all the integrity of Newspeak, it reads so quickly that you finish before you really begin. By eliminating antique appendages like adjectives and adverbs, Segal created the Evelyn Wood Primer without the Evelyn Wood course. His novel naturally made the critics apoplectic. What more serious writers hoped to develop-the cinematic novel-Segal achieved rather grossly in a pulp classic that...
...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...