Word: smokescreening
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Hugh Sidey's column "When the Elite Loses Touch," which attacked East Coast intellectuals' support of the Democrats, neglects the fact that close to 37 million "plain people" in the electorate saw through the Reagan smokescreen of flag waving and good feeling. They realized that the President possesses no substance and voted for Mondale and Ferraro...
...SASC leaflet. In fact, they provide for a total of 96 managers and managers in training in South Africa. Yet, Silvers thinks pure white domination under the Sullivan Principles to be "humane." He does not mention that the Sullivan Principles were created in 1977 to provide a smokescreen for American corporations faced with the very protests Silvers mentions in his essay...
...boycotting the ACSR, by supporting the Endowment for Divestiture, by holding protests at alumni fund drives on campus, by gaining alumni endorsements, by boycotting classes, by picketing administration buildings and by otherwise being as uncooperative as possible. If Harvard really intends an ACSR that is more than a smokescreen, it will have to give...
...about Orwell's interest in language. He realized that the manipulation of speech could be every bit as deadly as the bearing of arms. He reminded all who would listen that Hitler had risen to power in Germany through persuasion; that Stalin had obscured massive crimes through the smokescreen of invective. He also warned, on the eve of World War II, that matters could deteriorate: "The terrifying thing about the modern dictatorships is that they are something entirely unprecedented. Their end cannot be foreseen. In the past every tyranny was sooner or later overthrown, or at least resisted, because...
...losses now, stop work on the giant missile, and move toward-those systems that enhance deterrence--small, mobile missiles and submarines. Of course, reduction of nuclear weapons is a desirable goal, but it can be done in much better, safer ways. "Build-down" should be recognized as a confused smokescreen for all the parties in Washington, and should be discarded before it distorts the real issues of deterrence and peace...