Word: orwellianisms
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...eagerly scarf it up. "When a trend went out of style, we used to be forgiving of it and think it was quaint, like pink skirts with poodles and crew cuts with white socks," says Steve Hayden, chairman and CEO of BBDO Los Angeles and creator of the famous Orwellian Apple computer commercial that perked up the 1984 Super Bowl. "Now, we actually hate the last trend. It goes from the top of the chart to nothing...
...example, if they so chose, administrators could have used the card key system to track the movements of an individual student to check if he or she was going home to bed every night, or any other number of Orwellian possibilities...
...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...