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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]
2 Feb 2017, 2:00 pm
At ALI CLE’s Practical Lawyer, Professor Michael Walsh (Villanova) discusses and the six rules and offers thoughts on applying them. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 6:18 am
Without words, without definitions, we’re deep into Orwell territory. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 8:27 am
If you’re going to watch this, try skimming this first: “George Orwell and the Power of a Well-Placed Lie. [read post]
29 Jan 2017, 5:05 am
AND: I am fascinated by the NYT's presentation of "1984" as the book to read to understand Trump: "George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Is Suddenly a Best-Seller," "Why ‘1984’ Is a 2017 Must-Read"It seems to me that Obama was more of a Big Brother figure. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 9:07 am
In 1947, English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic George Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair 1903 – 1950) and author of Animal Farm: A Fairy Story and Nineteen Eighty-Four, his most famous works, wrote an essay titled Politics and the English Language. [read post]
27 Jan 2017, 8:34 am
” It didn’t take long after that for sales of George Orwell’s novel 1984 to skyrocket . . . . [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 5:30 am
In 1945, George Orwell noted the liberal prohibition in England against criticizing the Soviet Union: “What you said might possibly be true, but it was ‘inopportune’ and ‘played into the hands of’ this or that reactionary interest. [read post]
15 Jan 2017, 3:48 pm
The proposed rule contained several provisions that reminded me of the poster hung for all to see in George Orwell’s 1984: Big Brother Is Watching You. [read post]
18 Dec 2016, 6:24 am
" Very worryingly, we may even see legislation in Germany and other parts of Europe aiming to impose fines on social networks for not playing their part in the political establisment's censorship efforts led by a future equivalent of what George Orwell already envisioned to be a "Ministry of Truth" in his novel "1984. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 1:06 pm
” George Orwell also warns in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” of an “inflated style” and its tendency to obscure: “The inflated style itself is a kind of euphemism. [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 6:30 am
Those familiar with George Orwell’s “1984” will recall that “Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought. [read post]
26 Nov 2016, 11:54 am
* * *In sum, Fidel Castro was the spitting image of Big Brother in George Orwell's novel "1984. [read post]
13 Oct 2016, 3:02 pm
Enlarge (credit: Yahoo patent) Yahoo wants to take advertising to the next level—that is, the Orwellian level—bombarding people in public places with targeted advertising served up by the surveillance society. [read post]
2 Oct 2016, 7:44 pm
Fictions of state surveillance and secret intelligence also bleed into real politics, as with George Orwell, who helped underground translators and publishers devise ever more ingenious ways of smuggling his political dystopia 1984 into Poland, and the 2007 release of MI5 files that exposed the widespread practice of spying on writers. [read post]
1 Oct 2016, 4:53 pm
Decline of the English Sex Scandal: why you can never get a good sex scandal these days (with apologies to George Orwell) – Charlotte Harris News: Melania Trump’s US Libel Action against MailOnline, what are its prospects of success? [read post]
21 Sep 2016, 10:00 am
The list of surveillance technologies currently being used by local law enforcement reads like something out of a George Orwell novel. [read post]
23 Aug 2016, 7:05 am
That’s because no matter how great our technological edge, or how distant our operators, or how certain our “near certainty,” war is and will always remain the province of George Orwell’s proverbial “rough men” and women who stand ready to inflict violence on those who would do us harm. [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]
27 Jul 2016, 11:49 am
When was the last time you read George Orwell’s 1984? [read post]
