Word: orwellianisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conclude that HUPD could not contact an administrator to check on Mr. Ntshanga's student status or get him some assistance, because to do so would invade his privacy, and he was therefore arrested? What Orwellian thinking...
Perhaps too soon. Now, in our own nation, Orwellian forces in the government are craftily seeking to extend their reach into every American home. Playing on Americans' fears of terrorism in the wake of the World Trade Center bombing, the Clinton administration is seeking to win Congressional and private sector support for the implementation of a massive new communications surveillance system...
...critics of cloning say we should know what we're getting into, with all its Orwellian implications. But if we decide to outlaw cloning, we should understand the implications of that. We would be saying in effect that we prefer to leave genetic destiny to the crap shooting of nature, despite sickle-cell anemia and Tay-Sachs and all the rest, because ultimately we don't trust the market to regulate life itself. And this may be the hardest thing of all to acknowledge: that it isn't so much 21st century technology we fear, as what will happen...
Something has happened in the world, and we sense that it is along the lines of an Orwellian Big Brother phenomenon (could it be the television monitor perched near the ceiling, fixed on the characters below?). Ada and Meg (Yvonne Roemer and Calysta Drake) are chief-and assistant-washroom attendants, who encounter a series of women seeking a warm place to eat breakfast, to relieve themselves, and to expound their views on why men are wonderful and warm, beastly or boring...
Enter Robin Read, the campus judicial inquiry officer, who is long on authority but woefully short on brains. After her Orwellian questions about the possibility of Jacobowitz having "racist thoughts" got her nowhere, Ms. Read drew on her pitifully deficient knowledge of the fauna of the world...