Normanesque Rhetoric

A Chronicle of Jeopardy, 1945-1955, by Rexford G. Tugwell. 488 pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. $7.50

Of the various false rhetorics which assail us today, one of the hardest to take with an even stomach is the Normanesque. Originally developed by Norman Corwin in his canticles of the New Deal and the People’s Front, it was brought to its present blatant pitch by Norman Cousins as a vehicle for the revivalism of atomic apocalypse and of world-government salvation.

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Frank S. Meyer

Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

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A Chronicle of Jeopardy, 1945-1955, by Rexford G. Tugwell. 488 pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. $7.50

Of the various false rhetorics which assail us today, one of the hardest to take with an even stomach is the Normanesque. Originally developed by Norman Corwin in his canticles of the New Deal and the People’s Front, it was brought to its present blatant pitch by Norman Cousins as a vehicle for the revivalism of atomic apocalypse and of world-government salvation.