Word: orwellianisms
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...adjective Orwellian, like Kafkaesque, has come to symbolize some of the horrors of the 20th century, but most of the author's works present a less gloomy vision than does Nineteen Eighty-Four. "His essential appeal is similar to Dickens'," says Gray, who senses an underlying optimism in Orwell's political and autobiographical essays. "When Orwell exposes the cruelties of society, he's writing from the heart and passionately demanding justice...
...ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE of an omnipresent Big Brother intrigued and frightened the reader of the 1940's and 1950's. Today, we casually dismiss such scenarios as fanciful tales or impossibilities. But unknown to most Americans, the Administration has proposed a sweeping plan to monitor the public activities of government officials on a scale unprecedented in our history. Last week, the Senate wisely delayed the implementation of the President's controversial directive to subject federal employees to random lie detector tests and lifelong censorship. The rule (which will now go into effect next April) would have applied to officials cleared...
Browne is among the premier singer-songwriters of his generation. But that was the '70s, and the world is a few months shy of the most dreaded year of the '80s. Browne is ready for it. Lawyers in Love is full of dark Orwellian visions, leavened by some bright comic asides and lightened by some of Browne's most danceable music. The author concedes that the title track is "pretty sarcastic and maybe a little haughty," but its weirdly resonant images ("I hear the U.S.S.R. will be open soon/ As vacationland for lawyers in love") give...
...Orwellian world of the United Nations, illusion becomes reality by majority vote. Arab delegates will flock to the well-publicized summer meeting. For three days, self-righteous accusations will pollute Vienna's air and, in all likelihood, the meeting will conclude with yet another anti-Israel resolution. The Arab nations will have won a propaganda victory, and the United Nations will not have moved one step closer to ending apartheid...
...only one reason that civil libertarians attack vagrancy provisions. "Most officers use race as an index of suspicious conduct," says Mark Rosenbaum of the American Civil Liberties Union, who argued the case on Lawson's behalf. Rosenbaum naturally exulted in last week's ruling, declaring in Orwellian rhetoric that it "puts 1984 on hold." Because the decision objected only to the law's failure to spell out what identification would be satisfactory, however, California officials are already considering language for a new vagrancy statute...