Brief thoughts – apropos of an ÉS’s article¹

Abstract by a quotation:

“In our time, the language of politics has become infected with obscurity and madness. No lie is too gross for strenuous expression, no cruelty too abject to find apologia in the verbiage of historicism. Unless we can restore to the words in our newspaper, laws, and political acts some measure of clarity and stringency of meaning, our lives will draw yet nearer to chaos. There will then come to pass a new Dark Ages.”
/ George Steiner, The retreat from the word, 1961 /

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¹ ÉS is the abbreviation of “Élet és Irodalom”, which is a literary and political weekly.

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