Word: orwellian
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...customary to think of threats to privacy in Orwellian terms, with an all-seeing Big Brother government as the culprit. But lately the threat comes no less from private companies, private citizens -- and from our own imperfect notions of how to define which matters are properly kept confidential. The powers of government are fashioned under the pressure of society's own values and expectations. Lately those values have been in flux...
...behavioral level, it's the Orwellian Big Lie. "I did this, but it really doesn't matter -- I'm back." Or "It may have been bad, but it wasn't Dennis." Keep saying it, and they'll buy it. That's how narcissism operates. It doesn't say, "You are an unredeemable slime." It says, "You're special." And it permits them to somehow make...
...monopolies is wrong with ETS. It's inefficient. It doesn't give a damn about the consumer. It makes mistakes, egregiously and regularly. It's ridiculously priced (Fifty bucks for a GRE, 10 more for the ETS-published books you need to study properly). It's faceless. It's Orwellian...
Your rhetoric about "Orwellian techniques," "big brother tactics," and "willingness to suffocate [First Amendment rights]" simply lacks foundation. As I have stressed many times, students at the Law School are free to express their views on any subject in a variety of ways--in meetings with me, in letters and petitions and in rallies and demonstrations that do not disrupt the activities of others at the school or violate University rules. They do so regularly, and dissent at the Law School is not in short supply...
Support for police photography of protests is by no means unanimous. Last year, General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 ordered Harvard police to stop videotaping a militant ACT-UP protest. We hope he will continue to show an enlightened attitude and ban the use of such Orwellian techniques...