Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reaction of Britain confuses me. The constant pressure by totalitarian regimes must be stopped somewhere. Would the invasion have been more legitimate if the U.S. had waited until Communist installations were in place or perhaps a coup had occurred somewhere else in the Caribbean, like Puerto Rico...
Tens of millions have read it, in 62 languages: the story of Winston Smith, a minor bureaucrat in the totalitarian state of Oceania. War with the world's two other superpowers, Eurasia and Eastasia, is constant, although the pattern of hostilities and alliances keeps changing. Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting old newspaper stories to conform to current Party ideology. He uses the official language, Newspeak, a version of English being pared down to make unorthodox opinions impossible to conceive. Privacy has vanished. Waking and sleeping, Smith and all Party members are observed by two-way telescreens...
...something entirely unprecedented. Their end cannot be foreseen. In the past every tyranny was sooner or later overthrown, or at least resisted, because of 'human nature,' which as a matter of course desired liberty. But we cannot be at all certain that 'human nature' is constant . . . The radio, press-censorship, standardized education and the secret police have altered everything. Mass-suggestion is a science of the last twenty years, and we do not yet know how successful it will...
...three, four, U.S. out of El Salvador." The flag of the United States of America was suspended, upside down, from the bleachers and posters read "Caspar Weinberger Mass Murderer". For people trying to change American policy because they care about our democratic ideals, the flag and the constant chanting that made free speech an impossibility were hypocritical, especially at Harvard whose motto is "veritas" and whose goal is the quest for knowledge...
Nevertheless, Oz's Peace Now movement and his book show a shrewd political sense. Oz has maneuvered into an untouchable position by constructing a platform whose legitimacy rests in the opportunity for constant criticism: he even encourages constructive potshots at his pluralist theory. Nevertheless, those of us with a skeptical bent might scoff at an idealistic vision. Oz says, "I would like very much to live in world where there are one hundred different civilizations with any cultural and religious traditions and not a single nation-state." No one can deny Oz the opportunity to hope for such a time...