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4 Aug 2017, 6:56 am
” From 1984 by George Orwell In the dystopian world of George Orwell’s 1984, there is a machine called a “versificator. [read post]
14 Jul 2017, 6:08 pm
This question is so sensitive that celebrated English tea connoisseur (and writer) George Orwell famously described himself as a tea-before-milk person. [read post]
9 Jul 2017, 9:01 am
Is it just me or does this sound like something out of a George Orwell novel? [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 8:30 am
. *** Across college campuses these days, small knots of worried students and their professors have been gathering for public readings of George Orwell’s 1984—a not-too-subtle effort to link Trump’s America to the dystopian world so cannily sketched by one of Britain’s leading anti-fascists. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 2:15 pm
George Orwell’s “1984” is standard required reading in schools. [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 6:35 am
With so much advice already available – from luminaries such as George Orwell, William F. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 2:16 pm
Literature has warned of this power, books like Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and George Orwell’s “1984,” but “sensible” people, not much moved by imaginative writing, are always telling us that we have little to worry about. [read post]
26 May 2017, 10:15 am
Suppose that President Truman, the second Baptist president, had taken to convening a daily Orthodox minyan in the Oval Office, pressing prayer shawls and yarmulkes on Clark Clifford, Secretary of State George C. [read post]
12 May 2017, 3:07 am
The scene evokes George Orwell’s famous warning about telescreens, the omnipresent surveillance devices in Big Brother’s Oceania, by which the Thought Police could secretly watch anyone at any time. [read post]
5 May 2017, 11:46 am
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (1946). [read post]
1 May 2017, 6:53 am
William Edmundson Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Available here 10. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 9:00 am
In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the memory hole was where government officials deposited politically inconvenient documents for destruction. [read post]
9 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm
Perhaps because we have passed 1984 unscathed, we often ignore the significance of George Orwell’s “Newspeak”. [read post]
7 Apr 2017, 10:37 am
In order to understand the weight that the non-legal rules have on modern slavery—i.e. slavery which is not condoned by the law—George Orwell’s Animal Farm is discussed, as this tale of apparent liberation turns out to be one of de facto, or modern day, slavery. [read post]
7 Apr 2017, 10:37 am
In order to understand the weight that the non-legal rules have on modern slavery—i.e. slavery which is not condoned by the law—George Orwell’s Animal Farm is discussed, as this tale of apparent liberation turns out to be one of de facto, or modern day, slavery. [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 6:12 am
And replace all the damned clichés.And let me take one more opportunity to reprint what George Orwell said about dying metaphors:Dying metaphors. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 11:59 pm
Oates, The fourth face of legitimacy: Constituent power and the constitutional legitimacy of international institutions John Stone, George Orwell on politics and war Dimitrios E. [read post]
17 Feb 2017, 10:39 am
___________________________* Long ago, George Orwell wrote:A newly invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image, while on the other hand a metaphor which is technically ‘dead’ (e. g. iron resolution) has in effect reverted to being an ordinary word and can generally be used without loss of vividness. [read post]
17 Feb 2017, 8:45 am
George Orwell described it clearly. [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 4:13 pm
In this way, The Memory Hole 2 is the reverse of its namesake in George Orwell’s 1984, in which official documents that were no longer convenient for the powers-that-be were sent to a furnace through a hole in the wall. [read post]
