Word: orwellianisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very Orwellian feel for us in the library," said Geoffrey Carens, a library assistant and one of the Widener employees' representatives to the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical workers (HUCTW). Library workers, who say they are kept largely separate from those on the construction site, show concern that contractors won't speak out against the cameras for fear of losing their jobs...
...very Orwellian feel for us in the library," said Geoffrey Carens, a library assistant and one of the Widener employees' representatives to the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical workers (HUCTW...
Victory, of course, is in the eye of the beholder ?- or the spin doctor. But there?s something Orwellian about Belgrade seeing triumph in an agreement that surrenders a prized province to the control of a United Nations political administration and a NATO-dominated peacekeeping force. Particularly after President Milosevic made his countrymen suffer thousands of casualties and tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure damage as the price for this "victorious" dismemberment of their country...
...Castro of Cuba and Jiang Zemin of China, tops a list of enemies of the free press released by the committee Monday. Milosevic has been notoriously intolerant of independent journalists, both foreign and Yugoslavian. As for Tanjug, it operates out of something called the Ministry of Information, whose sinister, Orwellian name doesn't inspire much confidence in its objectivity...
...that are the crime, not Serbian attacks on Kosovo. While NATO accuses Serbs of aggression, Serbian media accuse NATO of aggression. When NATO cries genocide, Serbian media cry genocide. And with almost no outside points of reference in Yugoslavia, who's to know the difference? It is the ultimate Orwellian nightmare: from the streets of Belgrade to the rural villages of Serbia, truth and lies are evenly transposed...