Word: orwellianisms
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...night last week, Soviet television carried an astonishing news report from the capital of Afghanistan, a broadcast that was totally fitting for the dawn of the Orwellian new year. The film showed hundreds of Afghan demonstrators parading through the streets of Kabul on Christmas Day. The subject of their protest was, of course, not the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which had occurred exactly four years earlier. Instead, the Afghans were demonstrating against the U.S. invasion of Grenada, a military action that had begun in October and effectively ended after eight weeks. In the Soviet news film, the marchers carried...
...sanctions and limits on U.S. investments was imposed, and is considered to be one of the reasons for the growth of Black trade unions in South Africa. Although Jimmy Carter's policies have since been denounced as somewhat shortsighted, the Reagan Administration has gone further, taking an almost Orwellian line. At the beginning of his presidency, Reagan announced that a policy of so-called "constructive engagement" would make for a greater shift in South African policy towards Blacks. That has not happened. He said that a friendly alliance with South Africa had its roots in World War II, when South...
...word. A word that surely requires alteration today has been misused since the '50s. The author's name is not a synonym for totalitarianism. It is in fact the spirit that fights the worst tendencies in politics and society by using a fundamental sense of decency-Orwellian, in the best sense of the word...
What does it stand for? That question and the imminence of the Orwellian year have galvanized a small army of professors, critics and writers, journalists, pundits, social scientists, politicians and professional doomsters; hardly anyone paid for thinking out loud seems able to resist the temptation to play with Orwell's numbers. The game began in earnest last January and could, thanks to crowded conditions, easily extend into 1985. The action takes different forms: an apparently endless round of academic seminars and symposiums, coast to coast, from Manhattan College to Stanford; a swelling stream of magazine articles ("On the Brink...
...Happy 1984." This concludes a New York Times editorial criticizing the U.S. invasion of Grenada and the "Orwellian arguments" for it given by the Reagan Administration. The implication is clumsy but clear: Nineteen Eighty-Four and its author stand behind the Times's position. But a week or so earlier, the same newspaper's Op-Ed page ran a defense of the Grenada action by Neo-Conservative Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary. And Podhoretz had by then firmly claimed Orwell for his camp of disillusioned liberals: "I believe he [Orwell] would have been a neo-conservative...