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28 Aug 2020, 6:22 am
Clearly, she was there to reach out to people who might like some or a lot of what Trump is doing but think there's something brutal and rough about him and nice people don't associate with that.My choice of the word "rough" makes me think of that famous line attributed to George Orwell: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. [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]
23 Jun 2015, 8:29 am
And in a move that would have tickled George Orwell’s funny bone, the Right to Be Forgotten returns to Russia, original home of the memory hole. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 11:35 am
We've read about it in George Orwell's 1984, we've heard about it being practised by oppressive regimes such as North Korea, and now we're witnessing it first-hand, in our own supposed liberal democracies including the United States, the United Kingdom and now Australia. [read post]
3 Apr 2018, 4:39 pm
But he did run for Mayor of NYC.Here's that time I sat under a Normal Mailer for Mayor poster when I was 19:PHOTO CREDIT: Stephen Cohen.And here's George Orwell, "1984": "I’m due back at nineteen-thirty. [read post]
21 May 2022, 2:41 pm
NO QUIEREN SEÑOR BERMEJO, esa es la verdad, están dándole largas al asunto, tal vez pensando en una demanda de INCONSTITUCIONALIDAD o están implicados en un robo de proporciones no menos de 30 mil millones pueden ir a parar a manos de unos cuantos desgraciados como sus amigos congresistas.https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/o/orwell.htmJosé Guillermo Anderson"En Rebelión en la granja (1945), George Orwell parodió el… [read post]
24 May 2013, 4:16 am
I find foreign authors: here's a collection of John Cheever stories on display up by the front door, near to couple of George Orwells and a Dashiell Hamett. [read post]
21 Jun 2016, 8:52 am
Clinton supporters are choosing to glory in the massive size of her "war chest" — 32 times larger than Donald Trump's — but in movie logic, that casts her as the villain.And I know some people are sick of George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language":Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print... [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 11:25 am
And in a move that would have tickled George Orwell’s funny bone, the Right to Be Forgotten returns to Russia, original home of the memory hole. [read post]
8 Feb 2022, 4:22 pm
. 'A man … with no means of filling up time,” George Orwell wrote, is “as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain.'"Andrew Yang takes up the cause of men in "The data are clear: The boys are not all right" (WaPo).Let me single out the line "Strong, healthy, fulfilled men are more likely to treat women well. [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]
21 May 2013, 8:30 am
(This is what George Orwell called a "dying metaphor" in his famous essay "Politics and the English Language.") [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 10:53 am
From Mary Shelley to George Orwell to H.G. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 10:40 am
Image via WikipediaThe New York Times' Dealbook is reporting today that the 98-year-old bastion of liberal literati, The New Republic, is looking for suitors that either may result in an ownership change or a stable of new investors.Founded by political scribe Walter Lippmann in 1914 and whose pages in the past have been graced by prominent authors such as Philip Roth, George Orwell and Virginia Wolff, The New Republic has been owned since 2009 by long-time Editor-in-Chief… [read post]
18 Dec 2007, 2:50 am
Talcott, a partner at K&L Gates, writes that in the 23 years since the actual year 1984 came and went - happily with few of the horrors envisioned by George Orwell when he finished the novel back in 1948 coming to pass - we have allowed our privacy to seep away. [read post]
13 Sep 2014, 6:00 am
Berkeley Unified School District Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says that without proper privacy safeguards, the advancement of technology could lead to a world like the one portrayed in "1984" by George Orwell. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 1:08 pm
This is the totalitarian pathology that George Orwell called “double-think. [read post]
23 May 2007, 7:38 am
Unveiled in the north of Britain this week, it could be introduced across the country if deemed a success, fuelling an already intense debate over whether the “Big Brother” world George Orwell predicted is now truly upon us, or whether such scrutiny is merely essential for security in the modern era. [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 7:41 pm
Privacy advocates said tracking suspects electronically constitutes illegal search and seizure, violating Fourth Amendment rights of protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and is another step toward George Orwell’s Big Brother society. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 8:49 am
It's a topic that's not new to my readers - I've been writing about the striking similarities between pamphlets and social media for years (2003, 2009) and more recently read up on George Orwell's focus on pamphlets as a necessary component of communication for individuals to have the ability to freely express themselves. [read post]
