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11 Nov 2015, 6:20 am by David Canton
M inevitably describes the massive surveillance network that C is building as “George Orwell’s worst nightmare. [read post]
12 Apr 2022, 6:57 am by Jonathan Azzara
” “Reading the list of pork in this budget reminded me of reading George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ a satirical story about pigs that took over a farm with a promise to be fair to all the animals, but then started playing favorites and punishing enemies,” said Testa. [read post]
25 Jun 2020, 6:17 am by China Law Blog
Orígenes, cambios y desafíos de la brecha social en Chile (United Nations Development Program) and The Plot Against America: A Novel (Philip Roth) Jonathan – Tiananmen vigil in Hong Kong draws thousands despite coronavirus-related ban (South China Morning Post) Fred – Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) If you have comments on this episode or if you’d like to suggest topics for future episodes, please email globallawbiz@harrisbricken.com. [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 2:20 pm by Criminal Defense
Fairey had cultivated a reputation as a guerilla artist after he put up a series of images around Los Angeles with the words “Obey Giant” listed near a scowling face (of late wrestler/actor Andre the Giant), designed to be similar to images described in George Orwell’s bleak government oppressed future in the novel “1984. [read post]
4 Mar 2008, 9:44 am
Or maybe a quote from George Orwell’s 1984 is more appropriate here. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 1:17 pm
 Another tidbit: Judge Randolph’s majority opinion manages to quote Charles Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities,” Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon” and George Orwell’s “1984”. [read post]
7 Sep 2008, 1:32 am
If this finding is accurate, where does Orwell's newspeak fit in? [read post]
1 Feb 2008, 5:36 pm
Such nightmarish due process violations and abuse of language always bring to mind Kafka and Orwell, and for me, of course, Lenny Bruce and George Carlin. [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 3:30 am by Kristen Stilt
Stucki begins with a short quote from George Orwell’s 1984: “War is peace. [read post]
2 Jan 2012, 3:01 pm
As George Orwell might say, some Twitter followers are more equal than others. [read post]
31 Aug 2010, 6:54 am by John Phillips
Time says we’ve finally entered George Orwell’s vision of 1984. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 9:25 am
George Orwell painted the future better than he knew.The first item is the disclosure that mobile phones are being used to track an individual's movements. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 7:25 am
Some colleges are even requiring students to download tracking software onto personal digital or social media accounts in order to keep their scholarships.These practices are extremely disturbing and should not be allowed in the United States unless we want our society to turn into George Orwell's 1984. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 9:41 am
George Orwell told you long ago — in "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]
3 Oct 2009, 10:02 am
As George Orwell wrote, "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. [read post]
30 Sep 2021, 8:37 am by Tom Smith
What it brings to mind is George Orwell's essay “Politics and the English Language,” in which he talks about how words and the meaning of words fall in the service of political programs. [read post]
23 Aug 2009, 12:40 pm
As I stated in the conclusion to my paper, "After all, as George Orwell wrote: "Who controls the past controls the future", and Google could be said to be going a long way towards this end... [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 8:18 am
" George Orwell, it appears, is alive and well.And on the tort "reform" front, Savage has had this to say:"Pass tort reform now. [read post]
9 Sep 2007, 12:53 pm by Peter Kaufman
Lastly, the NY Times ran a piece by David Oshinsky about book publisher Alfred Knopf’s archive of reader’s reports (aka “coverage”) and rejection letters on such works as “The Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank (“a dreary record of typical family bickering, petty annoyances and adolescent emotions”) and George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” (it’s “impossible to sell animal stories in the U.S.A. [read post]