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27 Sep 2013, 8:10 pm
George Orwell Conflito: Guerra Civil Espanhola O Sr. [read post]
18 Aug 2008, 9:59 pm
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 8:33 pm
Quite the contrary: I think the Orwell brand offered much more to the Hitchens brand than vice versa (idle thought: a slasher-attack on George Orwell--now that would dtake courage). [read post]
21 Aug 2010, 10:00 am
I did, therefore, enjoy reading in Private Eye this afternoon… THE HISTORY BOYS TOBY YOUNG was in fine form as he launched into an attack on George Orwell’s essay The Lion and The Unicorn, a mere 69 years after it was first published, in 7 Augusts’ Spectator. [read post]
8 Apr 2008, 7:39 pm
" * The most frequently cited authors are "George Orwell (61 citations); William Shakespeare (35); Franz Kafka (34); John Milton (20); Homer, Chaucer, and Oscar Wilde (14 each). [read post]
14 Mar 2007, 4:43 pm
"- George Orwell, "In Front of Your Nose," The Tribune, Mar. 22, 1946. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 10:13 am
Jake Tapper is reporting that " there won't be any daylight between the US and Israel in the aftermath of the incident on the flotilla yesterday, which resulted in the deaths of 10 activists. [read post]
31 Oct 2017, 5:00 am
David Bowie’s top must-read books The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby (2008) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (2007) The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard (2007) Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage (2007) Fingersmith, Sarah Waters (2002) The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens (2001) Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler (1997) A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes (1997) The Insult,… [read post]
1 May 2017, 6:53 am
William Edmundson Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Available here 10. [read post]
21 Jan 2012, 9:00 pm
Did George Orwell have any idea that his 1984 barely scratched the surface of then-approaching governmental incursions on individuals' privacy? [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 3:55 pm
Contrary to popular opinion, Chinese surveillance is not the black-and-white image of evil, oppression, and ruthless efficiency suggested by George Orwell’s dystopian totalitarian state in his book, 1984. [read post]
2 Jul 2011, 11:59 am
I still love Barca but I did find myself remembering George Orwell in my copy of Homage to Catalonia that an old girlfriend (now long dead) gave me on my 19th birthday: In Spain nothing, from a meal to a battle, ever happens at the appointed time. [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 4:44 pm
By the time I was twelve, I had already read Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, along with George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. [read post]
26 Oct 2011, 10:39 am
That would make George Orwell proud, some young prosecutor not only read '1984', but lives by it's words.... [read post]
1 Oct 2010, 8:49 am
You can discuss the substance of Andrew Sullivan's new celebration of the amazing oratory of Barack Obama, but I see this as an occasion to reprint what I consider to be the single most useful item of advice in George Orwell's essential essay "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]
22 Jun 2015, 4:38 pm
(Referring to a George Orwell book, the court suggested that this was an obvious solution to this corporate litigation that started as a Section 225 action.) [read post]
3 May 2007, 7:07 pm
Wikipedia notes: "In George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 the government attempts to control not only the speech and actions, but also the thoughts of its subjects, labeling disapproved thoughts with the term thought crime []. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 6:53 am
George Orwell may have also written about this phenomena.Slate.com writer Matthew Yglesias points to a perfect example of this type of mindless opposition. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 8:31 am
From the nation that gave us George Orwell, the point is well made. [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 8:13 pm
He added a quip from a colleague who has watched the rise of surveillance in all forms, who proclaimed, “George Orwell may have been an optimist,” in imagining “Big Brother. [read post]
