The Orin–Hal phone call (p. 1020)
‘Vichified? Anschluss? This doesn’t sound like any Orin I know. These are rabidly political catchwords. What kind of heartbreaking Rubensian Moment-type fluff-journalist is this you’re so determined to—?’
Context
Hal doing diction-forensics in real time: two words are enough for him to detect a foreign vocabulary passing through his brother like a signal through a repeater — which is exactly what's happening, since the "catchwords" are Steeply's. The lexical prodigy's ear as the family's only working counterintelligence.