Word: orwellian
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...affirmative action and trumpeted by intellectuals. It produces and artificial, superficial diversity. It demeans blacks and Hispanics by saying that the essence of their being is their skin color, that the diversity they bring is literally skin deep. It treats them as an undifferentiated and homogeneous mass, characterized by Orwellian groupthink of the sort that post-war intellectuals said would never exist and that present-day intellectuals seem all too eager to abet...
What President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky may or may not have done does not interest me in the least [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 2]. The Orwellian qualities and nightmarish implications of the investigation and the media coverage make me sick. An independent counsel is allowed to spend years and more than $30 million of the taxpayers' money and use underhanded methods like taping close friends. Yet all this results in something that is not proved and is very, very private. Then the media jump on the story as if it were the start of World...
Although critics fear potential Orwellian implications, Malin cautions that the program is still in its infancy...
...spectacles almost mock idle viewers of the snapshot. Best known for his many short stories and plays about the crotchety, crime-solving barrister Rumpole, Mortimer is hardly considered a literary relative of Orwell's, yet the immense entertainment value of his new book owes a debt to some very Orwellian features of the compelling, satisfying mystery...
...which is doubly embarrassing since, as everyone knows, the Japanese don't have street addresses. And to call my office from this apartment involves a seven-digit access number, a 14-digit personal code and then another 14 digits. The days when I used to laugh at the Orwellian sterility of North Korean film names (The Report of No. 36, for example) seem remote indeed. And the days when New York City telephone numbers were humanized by letters--"Call me at LUddite 4-2628"--seem positively predigital...