Word: orwellian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately for Shoeless Joe Jackson, though, this statistic is "not officially recognized" by Major League Baseball because of Joe's ever-so-tenuous connection with the Black Sox game-fixing scandal of 1919. In an Orwellian fashion hardly expected from the national pasttime of a free country, Joe was banned from the game and his name was expunged from the recond books. This was despite the overwhelming evidence supporting his claim that he always played his hardest (he led both teams with a .375 average in the 1919 Series, and his twelve hits would still stand as a Series record...
However, too much supervision could be harmful,said Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry EugeneP. Kennedy. "There's a need for balance. We needsome super-vision but we can't have too much. Wecan't have an Orwellian atmosphere," he said
...government are banned. The only real exemptions are statements by Cabinet ministers, deputy ministers and government spokesmen, as well as accounts of parliamentary and completed judicial proceedings. Even critical comments on security matters by M.P.s speaking outside the halls of Parliament may now be forbidden. In a blatantly Orwellian rule, publications are even prohibited from printing any blank space within a story, lest such a deletion of text or photograph suggest that the article had been censored...
WHAT IS COOLSPEAK? Well, it's basically Orwellian Newspeak with a touch of fashion. In 1984, the function of Newspeak is to reduce the human vocabulary to the point where abstract ideas and emotions could not be verbally conveyed. Although there are probably very, very few people in California who have even heard of 1984, the inhabitants of our West Coast have done a better job of destroying the power of our language than the Ministry of Truth could have dreamed of. Take, for instance, this deep and moving conversation I heard on the shuttle...
...WITH ITS Orwellian name, lofty charge to review the decisions of Harvard's seven-man governing Corporation, and limited authority, the Board of Overseers is regarded widely as a small joke with a big title. The group seldom does anything more substantial than author reports on Harvard's more obscure departments. That's why apathy at first seems. like an appropriate response to the attempts by some administrators to interfere with its up-coming election...