Anyone who talked or wrote in vague, woolly language, for instance—language which tended to veil the issues it claimed to be discussing—he denounced as an enemy. The language of free men must, he held, be vivid, candid, truthful. Those who took refuge in vagueness did so because they had something to hide.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Anyone who talked or wrote in vague, woolly language, for instance—language which tended to veil the issues it claimed to be discussing—he denounced as an enemy. The language of free men must, he held, be vivid, candid, truthful. Those who took refuge in vagueness did so because they had something to hide." in the context of "John Wain, Essays on Literature and Ideas (1963), p. 186" to mean that wisdom is timeless.