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22 Jun 2022, 5:08 am
Growing greedy, we requested an intro to our poems by Mark Twain and a 'cautionary epilogue' by George Orwell. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 5:00 pm
King George and Mao Tse Tung had many based upon well settled history. [read post]
23 May 2022, 6:11 am
In the three months since Russia began its war of aggression, the character of the country has been changing before our eyes. [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]
20 May 2022, 11:43 am
The event's theme is 'Thrive with Security,' which must violate at least some George Orwell IP. [read post]
4 May 2022, 9:01 pm
Although I initially coined the term for grimly humorous dramatic effect, it is more accurate than anyone should want it to be.One of my nephews once wanted to talk to me about George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, which he had read in his high school English class. [read post]
12 Apr 2022, 6:57 am
” “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]
3 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
”When there is a phrase that is being misused or that has no meaning, I try to follow George Orwell’s instructions to refuse to use the phrase. [read post]
29 Mar 2022, 12:17 pm
” So explains Big Brother’s agent, O’Brien, to Winston in the midst of his torturing of Winston at the Ministry of Love, in George Orwell’s 1984. [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 11:16 am
George Orwell described the loss of religious belief as the amputation of the soul and suggested that the operation, while necessary, had turned out to be more than a simple surgical job. [read post]
4 Mar 2022, 9:58 am
George Orwell, who had probably aspired to recruit Dickens to the socialist cause, reluctantly concluded that Dickens was not interested in political reform, only in moral improvement: 'Useless to change institutions without a change of heart—that, essentially, is what he is always saying.' In fact, a major target of Dickens’s satire is liberalism.... [read post]
27 Feb 2022, 8:58 pm
The foreign secretary Liz Truss has said she “won’t oppose” British nationals who travel to Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion after President Zelensky announced the formation of a dedicated International Legion and urged foreigners to come and take up arms against Moscow.The new unit is reminiscent of the International Brigades set up by left-wingers in the Spanish Civil War, drawing thousands of foreign volunteers including literary greats from George Orwell… [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]
2 Feb 2022, 6:46 am
As much as the world would like the Olympics to be devoid of politics, as George Orwell once wrote, sport “is war minus the shooting. [read post]
27 Jan 2022, 7:19 am
" The George Orwell essay is "England, Your England" (1941): When you come back to England from any foreign country, you have immediately the sensation of breathing a different air. [read post]
23 Jan 2022, 3:27 pm
Daily Mail (UK) (Chris Hastings) reports: [S]taff at the University of Northampton have issued a trigger warning for George Orwell's novel on the grounds that it contains 'explicit material' which some students may find 'offensive and upsetting'. [read post]
13 Dec 2021, 1:55 pm
But the criminally accused have rights, and in any case, women can be malevolent.ADDED: I like the Times's summary of Orwell's issue, government's effort "to prevent citizens from thinking rationally and from challenging the state. [read post]
18 Nov 2021, 11:52 am
Indeed, as George Orwell once said: he who controls the past controls the future. [read post]
17 Nov 2021, 9:25 am
Astute observers of political systems, on both the left (George Orwell) and the right (Eric Voegelin) have long recognized that ideologies destroy language, including speech acts and performative utterances. [read post]
30 Sep 2021, 8:37 am
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]
