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18 Mar 2008, 6:39 am
The site’s administrator seems to have a sense of humour as well: I picked the first immediately recognizable book on the list, 1984 by George Orwell, and asked it to find me some matches. [read post]
13 May 2007, 7:18 am
Almost lost amongst all this excitement was the launching of the Ministry of Justice, sounding (as others have commented) like something out of George Orwell (I rather liked Ian Hislop's joke on Have I Got News For You that the Home Office had been split into the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Truth).I suppose as a law blogger that I should make some comment about the new department responsible for our justice system, but to be quite honest I'm not sure there is… [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 11:46 am
Newer Courthouses aren’t always better – the Brampton Courthouse, for example, feels like something out of George Orwell’s 1984 to me – but there is no doubt that the Waterloo Region has long been in need of a new facility. [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]
24 Feb 2012, 5:30 am
And thanks to Pete Warden in comments for the relevant George Orwell quote. [read post]
23 Sep 2007, 8:17 am
He adores George Orwell -- he of Animal Farm -- and reveres Justice Robert Jackson -- he of the Nuremberg trial and of cabining executive power. [read post]
13 Mar 2015, 8:26 am
But to hear opponents tell it, it's actually a government takeover straight out of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. [read post]
21 Sep 2007, 10:49 am
Its depiction of life in a totalitarian society is as bone-chilling as anything Orwell could imagine. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 6:04 am
Others will say that we are on a slippery slope to George Orwell's 1984. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 11:35 am
Consumers Association President Daniel Geherson even compared the treaty with George Orwell’s 1984 novel, pointing out the censorship and the risks to freedom of speech and privacy posed by ACTA. [read post]
2 Aug 2020, 6:02 am
Questioning the current campus orthodoxy even in the context of serious academic inquiry is now considered a capital offense by the growing number of people who, as Daniel Schwammenthal put it earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal, “seem to understand George Orwell’s ‘1984’ not as a warning but as a manual. [read post]
20 Jun 2007, 12:15 am
George Orwell does better still, with 224 references to "Orwellian. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 12:03 pm
Exploiting psychology in law and advertising George Orwell's 1989: Tampering with photographs and political memories The Recipe: A cookbook for memories of sexual abuse Training Humans: Better living through memory modification The Future of the Past: Cleansing our minds of crime and vice The Memory Doctor [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]
16 Jan 2012, 6:11 am
It doesn’t matter that, with tones of George Orwell or Hannah Arendt, the terms sounds a lot like the type of categorizing/labeling of people even little children know they should never engage in. [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]
5 Apr 2010, 3:00 pm
George Orwell wrote "Politics and the English Language" in 1946. [read post]
7 Jun 2009, 11:02 pm
On this day in ...... 1949 (60 years ago today), George Orwell's novel 1984 was published in England; it appeared in the United States 5 days later. [read post]
18 Nov 2015, 7:55 pm
Andere Beispiele waren die Kontroverse um das Tagebuch von Anne Frank und das Verhalten der Erben von George Orwell («1984»). [read post]
1 Jan 2019, 4:28 pm
” It was a fitting time to pose the question, the Star’s editors figured, because 1983 was 35 years after George Orwell penned 1984. [read post]
