Word: orwellianisms
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Only 120 miles north of Seoul lies another world. There, from a drab, cheerless capital, the self-proclaimed "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung presides over an Orwellian state where the radios have dials that cannot be tuned and loudspeakers broadcast propaganda 20 hours a day into every home. Such totalitarianism is fast becoming extinct everywhere else in the world, but Kim not only survives, he is virtually worshiped by his people...
...massacre has started on June 3, but it has not ended. It was just camouflaged into a more subtle form. the tanks and machine guns may be gone from sight, but an elaborate Orwellian thought control apparatus is now in their place," the speakers said...
What utter nonsense, what Orwellian doubletalk is the statement of Dean of Undergraduate Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons '67 that Harvard's policy of giving special consideration to legacy students helps ensure need-blind admissions! Many legacy students are admitted only because of their legacy status--due, says Fitzsimmons, at least in part to the deep pockets of these students' families...
...Forcible rape" is a scary term. It says that rape doesn't inevtibly mean forcible; it says that rape is something that just happens, with or without force, or maybe with or without consent, to be more Orwellian about it. "Forcible rape" implies that rape is nobody's fault, except maybe that of the raped woman...
...With Orwellian thoroughness, the hard-liners revise history to justify a harsh roundup of "counterrevolutionary hooligans" and make heroes of the army. -- Gorbachev receives a tumultuous welcome in West Germany...