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4 Jun 2014, 3:37 pm
It brings to mind George Orwell’s observation, in his enduring essay “Politics and the English Language,” that “[i]n our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible,” and that the word “democracy,” in particular, “has several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with each other” and “is often used in a consciously dishonest way. [read post]
19 Mar 2011, 3:30 pm
Article first published as George Orwell Comes to Washington: The "Protect Patients Now" Lobbying Group on Technorati. [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 5:24 pm
Unfortunately for Amazon, they did a sloppy job of research, and quote George Orwell, of all people, trying to implicate him as one of those opposed to paperbacks, and trying to show that he was promoting collusion of the publishers to suppress publication of paperback books. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 1:22 pm
In George Orwell's 1984, the people mediated daily on the State's declared enemies. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 1:33 pm
He writes: "As a teenager, I relished George Orwell's accounts of going into dangerous coal mines in The Road to Wigan Pier and washing dishes in Down and Out in Paris and London, and was likewise moved by Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed. [read post]
3 Nov 2015, 5:34 am
George Orwell wrote about dying metaphors in "Politics and the English Language":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]
1 Dec 2017, 8:24 am
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell The Information has conducted an extensive review of Google’s apparently hostile work environment and one thing is clear–all the stories we heard about Google’s headman, Eric “Uncle Sugar” Schmidt really have had the predictably corrosive effect. [read post]
19 Oct 2019, 11:38 pm
As George Orwell once said: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. [read post]
16 Apr 2019, 11:52 am
The term was coined after the great British writer George Orwell used the term “doublethink” to describe a reality that was completely distorted, where down was up, freedom equaled slavery and war was really peace. [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 7:58 pm
If George Orwell’s satirical theory of equality in “Animal Farm” applied to the New York Penal Law, then all knives would be created equal even if certain knives were more equal than others. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 4:54 pm
Analysis It has been all of thirty years since George Orwell’s “1984,” but imagery from that novel can still be scary, indeed. [read post]
15 Jun 2018, 5:30 am
Requirements that cable television systems make a certain amount of channel capacity available for leasing to non-affiliated programmers have been in place since the time when George Orwell predicted that “Big Brother” would control the world – 1984. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 10:14 am
”By the way, I love Bourdain's book "Kitchen Confidential," and I was fascinated to learn that it was inspired by one of my favorite books, “Down and Out in Paris and London” (by George Orwell). [read post]
26 Mar 2008, 2:44 am
* * * WARNING * * *Video may be disturbing to many people, viewer discretion is advised! [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 4:05 pm
It is a Sunday afternoon –you put your feet up on the sofa and open the Sun on Sunday. [read post]
29 Jan 2008, 2:09 pm
The other was George Orwell, so put 'em together " Mukasey said without elaborating.Asked what Mukasey saw in Orwell, Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr said it was his clarity. [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 1:41 pm
” George Orwell, Politics and the English Language Orwell was prescient again. [read post]
9 May 2023, 4:00 am
…” George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” “The words we use shape our mindsets, which in turn affect how we think and behave. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 7:45 pm
You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word. ~ George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1 New proposed legislation, known as the PROTECT IP Act or (PIPA), would create a blacklist of “rogue sites,” and would force Internet service providers to block access to those sites. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 6:54 am
Here. [read post]
