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Rape is ugly, violent and dehumanizing. It makes its victims fear their communities, and is a painful reminder to all civilized people of the results of not respecting the sovereignty of an individual. Rape is a crime, and rapists belong in prison. Sadly, rape has become an Orwellian political weapon with no fixed definition...
Some Adams residents called the decision, made by masters and tutors in the house, paternalistic. One called it an "Orwellian nightmare." Such a claim is laughable. Democracy should be practiced in most house decision-making, but the tyranny of the majority should never prevail. The decision was an appropriate intervention to protect the rights of non-smokers...
While we would not call Viggiani's implementation an "Orwellian nightmare," it is nevertheless paternalistic and destructive. Holding forums, encouraging discussions of negotiating compromises among residents could have made all parties aware of one anothers' concerns and placed choice and responsibility in residents' hands...
...like Soviet leaders before him, a master of doublethink. Sheehy eventually turns this standard Orwellian idea into what she calls her own "shattering insight . . . There is no bottom line to the Soviet socialist ideal -- it's a snake pit of hypocrisy...
When Actors' Equity briefly decided three weeks ago that the part of a Eurasian in the play Miss Saigon could not be taken by a European, its board members provided some of the best entertainment seen on Broadway recently. It was not just that they were asserting an Orwellian principle: All races are equal, but some are more equal than others. Nor even that they were threatening to deprive thousands of playgoers of a drama that promised to shed some light on precisely such cross-cultural nuances; nor even that they were more or less ensuring -- if the principle were...