Word: orwellian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Orwell, the name he long intended to legalize, he had written a dozen books, fiction and nonfiction. Only six have been published in the U.S., but all of them, whatever their shortcomings, are distinguished by a forthrightness of mind and a limber, cutting style that are singularly Orwellian, unmistakably original...
Would the world in the next 30 years go to the Slichterian heaven or the Orwellian hell? That was a political-and therefore a moral-question. In 1900 scientists had not greatly concerned themselves with political or moral issues, but as the half-century ended they knew themselves to be very deeply involved in such questions. A sharp warning on the political future came from a scientist, Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime boss of the Government's scientific mobilization and head of the Carnegie Institution of Washington...
...Last week some indignant citizens of New York saw an Orwellian shadow in Grand Central Terminal broadcasts which they could not turn off (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...