Word: nineteen
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Though the Nazis have never been outdone in applying seemingly harmless labels to the most hideous practices, most governments sooner or later find euphemism an indispensable device. "Pacification" has become a popular term for war ("War is peace," as the Ministry of Truth says in Nineteen Eighty-Four), but the Romans meant much the same thing by the term Pax Romana. "Where they make a desert, they call it peace," protested an English nobleman quoted in Tacitus. Viet Nam brought us new words for the old realities: soldiers "wasted" the enemy, some "fragged" their own officers, bombers provided "close...
...greeted by "Good morning, Mr. Orwell." Oh no, has the British author's dark and malevolent fable of total totalitarianism finally arrived? Not really. Simply a group of avant-gardists greeting the new year with a public television, cross-Atlantic extravaganza dedicated to George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and "the first media prophet and philosopher." That's the view of the program's creator, Video Virtuoso Nam June Paik, 51, who intends to show television as a "liberating" force, not fraught with the "negative aspects" emphasized by Orwell. To this end, he has enlisted...
...story on George Orwell [Nov. 28] provided a penetrating analysis of a book that is often misunderstood. Readers of Nineteen Eighty-Four should not fear the events described in the novel but take them as a warning of what could happen. Orwell's intentions were not to predict the future but to encourage people to think about it in an intelligent...
Although the Nineteen Eighty-Four scenario has not come true, we can thank Orwell for his insights. In this age of MX missiles and nuclear freeze, Orwell has put the situation in perspective. He was so correct when he wrote, "In politics, one can never do more than decide which of two evils is lesser, and there are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic...
...Farm at last brought Orwell some financial relief; he could afford to cut back on his journalism and devote more time to his next novel. He took a house on Jura, a windy, remote island off the western coast of Scotland. There, growing more ill each day, he completed Nineteen Eighty-Four...