Word: orwellian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the heart of Deutscher's message is that the West should not become hypnotized by an Orwellian view of Soviet Russia as a mere incarnation of horror that must be wiped out-because, such hate will only blind the West in trying to devise sound policy. Most readers will accept this as sensible advice. But Deutscher goes on to plead elaborately that Russia is not really like 1984 at all-and in this plea he shows a pedantic failure to understand satire. Or could it be that Author Deutscher, like the characters in 1984, uses doublethink without...
...Cornell Historian Clinton Rossiter, Georgetown Law Professor Joseph Snee, S.J. and Harvard Law Professor Arthur Sutherland, was a valiant if incomplete attempt to do a much-needed job. The investigation of security procedures and firings, made under the auspices of the New York City bar association, cast a frightening Orwellian light on the abuses committed in the name of security...
Californians had a good case of Orwellian creeps. While no Big Brother was watching them, they had flatly been warned that almost everyone else was-or could be-listening. The state senate Judiciary Committee, hoping to draft 20th century laws to cope with ingenious invasions of privacy, set many a Californian on his ear with a report on a lengthy study of electronic eavesdropping and wiretapping, found that for all the benefits of electronic enterprise there have also been some disturbing developments. Among them...
...Clair has made for them. After a drunken dinner, for instance, the materialist exudes enthusiasm as he pelts his own portrait with wine glasses. In short Clair has shown that there are pleasanter ways to criticize the advances of modern technology than through the grim didacticism of an Orwellian nightmare...
...many human rights that Communism does not recognize is the right to leave one's country and go elsewhere. Since World War II, well over a million escapees and refugees have fled west to escape the secret police, forced labor or other aspects of life in an Orwellian 1984. For the old, the ill, or the unemployable the journey was, in Communist eyes, good riddance. But the departure of the young and the skilled was a loss, as well as bad propaganda. In recent months a concerted serenade has sounded from behind the Iron Curtain: come home...