In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing. Where it is not true, it will generally be found that the writer is some kinds of rebel,【M1】______ expressing his private opinions and not a 'party line.' Orthodoxy, of whichever【M2】______ color, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style. The political dialects to be found in pamphlets, leading articles, manifestoes, white papers and the speeches of undersecretaries do, of course, vary from party to party, but they are all like in that one almost never finds in them a fresh, vivid, home-【M3】______ made turn of speaking. When one watches some tired hack on the platform【M4】______ mechanically repeated the familiar phrases, one often has a curious feeling【M5】______ that one is not watching live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling【M6】______ which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speakers spectacles and turns them to blank discs which seem to have no eyes【M7】______ behind them. And this is not altogether fanciful. A speaker who uses that kind of phraseology has gone some distance toward turning him into a ma-【M8】______ chine. The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved as it would be if he was choosing his words for himself. If the【M9】______ speech he is making up is one that he is accustomed to make over and over【M10】______ again, he may be almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one is when one utters the responses in church. 【M1】