Word: honorally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prologue and epilogue on Invasion of the Body Snatchers that damn near ruined the whole thing," he recalls. "And after the first screening of Riot in Cell Block 11, all the executives filed out without saying a single word. I sometimes feel like a prophet without honor in my own land...
...posthumous honor is a tribute to his passion for truth; as the current cant goes, he told it like it was. Almost alone among the discredited (figures of the '30s, Orwell, with his clarity, charity and honesty, is undiscredited. He can be read today by the young without boredom or nausea-despite the fact that he was in most ways as square as an unsoaked sugar cube. Reading him today is like taking a guided tour through the seven circles of the political hell that Western Europe built for itself on the bases of the Depression, (the Spanish Civil...
...world, if at all, from a moral impulse, and where was that impulse to come from? Not from the "self-justifying complacent hypocrisy of the boiled rabbits. . .of the left intelligentsia." The real problem of the West, as he saw it, was to preserve mankind's ethical values- honor, mercy, justice, respect for others -in the face of an almost universal disappearance of a belief in the immortality of the soul. Being naturally a good man, he was a good humanist, but being a logical man, he saw that others were not. When people ceased to be Christians they...
Whatever his standing with God, Orwell had small status among political men. He stood apart from what he called "the smelly little orthodoxies contending for our souls." He had enjoyed the painful honor of being wounded by fascists and hunted for his life by the gunmen of the GPU. He had fought against Franco in Spain, but with the wrong mob-the semi-anarchist POUM instead of the Stalinist-sponsored International Brigade. Back in London, he had found himself nudged into near oblivion by the fellow-traveling leftist press. Such experiences toughened his mind and help to explain his standing...
High intellectual and personal honor shines through these volumes. Far from being a resection of yesterday's cold political cadavers, they compose the record of one of the most notable lives of the 20th century...