Word: wallaceland
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Perpetual Fogs. Macdonald has a few pages of fun with "Wallese," the language spoken in "Wallaceland . . . the mental habitat of Henry Wallace plus a few hundred thousand regular readers of the New Republic, the Nation and PM. It is a region of perpetual fogs, caused by the warm winds of the liberal Gulf Stream coming in contact with the Soviet glacier." Wallace is loaded with "ritualistic adjectives" like "forward-looking," "freedom-loving," "clear-thinking." Such lingo, delivered with the "expansiveness of a Messiah," is just what it takes to make his followers accept Wallace "on his own valuation...
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