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16 Feb 2019, 12:40 pm
"... and the system recognises the vaguely futuristic tone and the novelistic style, and continues with: 'I was in my car on my way to a new job in Seattle. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 4:00 am by Canadian Association of Law Libraries
Journalism, as preached and performed by people like HL Mencken and George Orwell, is largely dead and the new models are ill-defined, in flux, and well outside the bounds of any professional “control” or regulation. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 11:16 am
" which begins:In the novel 1984, George Orwell wrote about a dystopian future where “to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for instance) was itself a punishable offense. [read post]
12 Jan 2019, 12:31 pm by Chris Castle
  Imagine the hell-bent Kafka-esque spawn of Bill Jackson’s Youth of the Future and George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth. [read post]
5 Jan 2019, 10:00 am by John Floyd
”   Mastery of Doublespeak   In effect, Trump has co-opted a page out of George Orwell’s “1984” doublespeak to make a lie the truth and the truth a lie. [read post]
1 Jan 2019, 4:28 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
” 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]
18 Dec 2018, 4:20 am by SHG
What I see are NYPD officers who were put in a position that partly resembles what George Orwell once described in his essay about his time as a colonial police officer in Burma. [read post]
30 Nov 2018, 6:06 am by Michael Geist
Scott Fitzgerald and George Orwell along with books by John Wyndham and John Steinbeck that will enter the public domain in Canada by the end of the decade. [read post]
28 Oct 2018, 3:28 pm by JD Hull
” --Winston, thinking, in George Orwell's 1984. [read post]
19 Jun 2018, 4:45 am
______________________* And — one more time — I've got to remind you of what George Orwell said about dying metaphors:Dying metaphors. [read post]
15 Jun 2018, 5:30 am by Peter Tannenwald
Requirements that cable television systems make a certain amount of channel capacity available for leasing to non-affiliated programmers have been in place since the time when George Orwell predicted that “Big Brother” would control the world – 1984. [read post]
14 Jun 2018, 4:01 am by Mario Machado
  –George Orwell, Animal Farm (Original Preface) Let’s begin with stating the obvious: for some many of my fellow primates, there are some words that are just too much to bear. [read post]
15 Apr 2018, 5:55 am by Steve Brachmann
Perhaps the most famous example of this in the science fiction canon of the 20th century is George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. [read post]
15 Apr 2018, 5:55 am by Steve Brachmann
Perhaps the most famous example of this in the science fiction canon of the 20th century is George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 9:19 am by Guy Burgess
This is a new kind of tyranny --- George Orwell's 1984 updated the 2024 technology.Another scary prospect is a anocracy, or failed states. [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]