Word: orwellian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Producer Felix Jackson, faced with the difficult job of making the Orwellian future believable ("without putting on a space-cadet kind of show"), hired British Playwright William P. Templeton to do the adaptation. Jackson also decided, with Director Paul Nickell, that the shape of the superstate could be suggested, rather than spelled out, by lighting tricks and simple, abstract sets...
Critics lauded the first-rate production, including the staging, the orchestra (under the Vienna State Opera's Karl Boehm) and the highly imaginative sets (by German Designer Caspar Neher), which evoked a kind of Orwellian gloom amid Salzburg's sunny, baroque opulence. But critics reluctantly admitted that Von Einem's score itself was something of a disappointment...
Newsmen who asked Powell last week why he had never criticized any Red action were rewarded with Powell's own version of Orwellian doublespeak: "You just don't understand. In China, there's a new appreciation of the role of the press...
...Method of Three." For the working man, life became an Orwellian nightmare of cant and slogans, pressures and penalties. He went to a job picked for him by the government. At day's end he shuffled from the plant in shoddy shoes that cost too much (about 100 hours' wages) and wore out too soon to a home where the larder was lean (a pound of butter, when it was available, cost ten hours' wages) and hope even leaner. The regime coerced him into volunteer, unpaid "peace shifts." He had to march in parades to demand more...
...power to the Politburo (in charge of policy) and the Orgburo (in charge of organization). The present Politburo (twelve members, including Stalin, Molotov, Malenkov) is probably the most powerful group in history. Under the new rules, the Politburo and the Orgburo will be merged and the two ugly Orwellian names replaced by the stern old Latin "Presidium." There is no reason to assume that the new Presidium will be anything but a more efficient Politburo...