Word: orwellianisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Naturally, Black New Yorkers see the propping up of a white bureaucrat over a qualified Black educator as a slap in the face, particularly because two-thirds of the school population is Black and Hispanic. Yet in a show of hypocrisy best described as Orwellian, Koch and his ever-faithful handmaidens on the editorial board of The New York Times continue to argue that the appointment should be based on "merit and not ethnicity." To some, it represents yet another example of the cheerful politics of polarization which continue to be Koch's trademark...
...that can cover all possible targets three or four times, then you must have something in mind. The most obscene thing about this weapon is that the Administration tries to depict it as a contribution to peace, to arms negotiations. They even call it the "Peacemaker," which is tremendously Orwellian. You know, there's a Russian saying: "People never lie so much as when they've been hunting." I would add: or during an arms race...
Surely, a new approach is needed. I suggest that the United States simply skip the year 1984 altogether, with all of its chilling Orwellian connotations, and go straight ahead to 1985. While this would mean many sacrifices--I personally would have to forego my graduation--it is the least Americans can do for their country: it would allow the United States to pull ahead of Russia in the Time Race: and, since there would be no 1984 election, Ronald Reagan would continue to stay at the helm of this great nation until...
...groups not served by local school districts. Says Willard McGuire, president of the National Education Association: "Block grants have been used to shift the battleground to the local level." Argues National School Boards Association President Thomas Shannon: "We don't know yet if the New Federalism ... is Orwellian Newspeak for the old federalism that existed in 1917 before the enactment of the Vocational Education Act and the Child Nutrition Act." James Gordon Ward of the American Federation of Teachers claims Reagan and Bell have set up a ridiculous choice: "Federal control with lots of money, or local control with...
...positions within the national security apparatus. Frank Carlucci, deputy secretary of defense, says flatly: "I think we need to have a warfighting capability (In nuclear arms)." Eugene V. Rotow, a veteran hard-liner who is now director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, expresses views that lend an Orwellian tone to his job little. "We are." he declared on June 1, 1976, "in a pre-war and not a postwar world." So it should come as no surprise that the administration's defense program calls for building 17,000 new nuclear weapons--in addition...