Word: doublethinkers
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...dear Lady Dodds" (Martita Hunt), a magnificent, antique iron doe, is followed on stage by Dr. McAdam (Miles Malleson), a lovable, bumbling country practitioner. The local "artist" (Roland Culver) is also there, and the artist's wife (Elizabeth Allan). The wife's lover (Colin Gordon), a big doublethink expert on the BBC, and the local Labor M.P. (Edward Chapman) complete the ambitious chaplain's board of experts...
...those faults is the chief cause of the loss of confidence that has afflicted so many people of the Western World. But we do recognize them; we do not pretend that our failures were decreed by historical necessity; nor do we rewrite history according to the percepts of Doublethink to prove that they never happened at all. What we have to offer is a method and the freedom of mind that makes the method possible...
After fanaticism, Orwell attacks intellectual humbug. In Politics and the English Language he excoriates the light-fingered journalists, heavy-handed politicos and potato-mouthed bureaucrats who, through carelessness or snobbery, are maiming the English language. In The Prevention of Literature he baits, hooks and dries the doublethink Communist intellectuals. Unlike most American criticism, which is written in a weird graduate school code, Orwell's literary essays are directed, without condescension or pedantry, to the non-expert who reads for pleasure...
...frankly an end in itself. "God is power," explains the smiling, priestly torturer. Thus, to be Godlike, the man of 1984 must have such power over himself as to be capable of nothing but "utter submission" to the invisible Big Brother. By practising the Newspeak art of doublethink, he must learn to believe in the very core of his being that even "the stars can be near or distant, according as we [the party] need them." Only then can he become "immortal"-his identity lost in the deathless unity of the party...