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Walter Lippmann: III. Obfuscator de Luxe
Pinchot, Amos | July 19, 1933 issue

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The article discusses the writing style of the U.S. journalist Walter Lippmann. Frequently he uses words, sentences, and even paragraphs in antiphonal array, from which the gist emerges only after a process of cancellation that leaves a residue that is small compared with the totality of statement. But what is especially noteworthy in Lippmann, as a successful publicist, is that, through skilful phraseology and constant citation of authorities, he attains impressiveness with a substance that is distinctly banal.

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LIPPMANN, Walter, 1889-1974; JOURNALISTS -- United States; WRITING; PHRASEOLOGY; JOURNALISM; UNITED States
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