Word: orwellianisms
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...quite clear that the committee exists to bleed seniors of cash: “We want all students to give what they can,” giving being “relative to one’s financial circumstances.” The committee strikes a disturbingly Orwellian chord: “It is important to educate all seniors about proportionate giving...
This week, Harvard men’s hockey coach Mark Mazzoleni held a meeting with the team’s defensemen to discuss playing time. His message was Orwellian: All defensemen are equal, but on Fridays and Saturdays, some have to be more equal than others...
Bush-haters often complain of the Orwellian quality of this administration’s approach to the truth. I agree, but the next time the White House announces that two plus two equals five, it won’t be enough to gasp, “You’re lying!” Someone has to give the right answer...
...long over, and at 72, he has written a searing, startling novel that sweeps through much of the 20th century and up to the present conflict with Iraq, and it may shock his devoted fans. Absolute Friends (Little, Brown; 455 pages) is a work of fist-shaking, Orwellian outrage. "At the end of the cold war, people said I was finished," Le Carre says with quiet determination. "I felt I was really just beginning...
Consider the use of “designated free speech zones” (can you imagine a creepier, more Orwellian name?) to sanitize crowds during public appearances by top administration officials. Protestors carrying signs critical of the administration are herded into these “designated free speech zones”—also called “designated protest zones”—out of sight of the motorcade route or event; those demonstrating in support of the president are not. Protestors who refuse to move have been arrested, and a South Carolina man is currently...