Word: orwellianisms
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...course I’m not suggesting Democrats really become tyrannical. As we can learn from Bush’s example, appearance is everything. Orwellian nomenclature is key. Under Bush, what might have been honestly termed the Anti-Civil Rights and Cutting Down Trees Acts became the Patriot and Healthy Forest Acts, respectively...
...mission in Iraq beginning to sag and as political sniping in Washington intensifies, the Bush Administration is struggling to cast dismaying events in a hopeful light. "The more progress we make on the ground," declared the President, "... the more desperate these killers become." That struck many as an Orwellian way to measure U.S. success. To keep the accent on the positive, the Coalition Provisional Authority, led by proconsul Paul Bremer, is opening a media center in Baghdad similar to the one set up in Qatar during major combat operations. "We have a story to tell," says a senior official. Part...
...smart money says Arafat would be easily reelected, despite considerable hostility among his own constituents to the corruption and ineptitude of his regime. Moreover, the suggestion that the only thing standing between the Palestinians and their freedom is Yasser Arafat is taken, in the Arab world, as an Orwellian attempt to distract attention from the reluctance of the Bush administration to restrain Ariel Sharon's creeping annexation of an ever-growing portion of the West Bank...
...says was inspired by George Orwell’s 1984, but which Dershowitz, confounded by his massive borrowings from Peters, not once but twice credits directly to Orwell (“George Orwell’s ‘turnspeak,’” “Orwellian turnspeak”). On which pages of 1984 did Dershowitz find “turnspeak?...
...loss of Chick-Fil-A has been accompanied by any number of Orwellian excuses from the masterminds in Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). In their brave new gustatory world, the sandwich we all loved so well has been replaced by “healthier” offerings—options like salads that bear an eerie resemblance to their wilted counterparts in the dining halls. The Greenhouse, once a welcome refuge from the existential despair of HUDS’ ineluctable menu cycle, has been colonized by the enemy...