Word: orwellianisms
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...acres of gently rolling park land on Washington's Mall, the monument will consist of two black granite walls that meet in a V and recede into the ground. One critic, Viet Nam Veteran Tom Carhart, calls it "a black gash of shame." The National Review labels it "Orwellian glop...
This week Nova opened its ninth season with the now familiar topic Computers, Spies and Private Lives. The show's strength came not from its focus but its footwork and such Orwellian touches as the telephone confrontation between a debtor and a mechanized collection agent: "Speak to me. Your response or lack of it will become a permanent part of your record." Next week's show, a more traditional piece on modern efforts to crack the secrets of the great fiddle makers, manages to scoop Scientific American, whose October cover story on the acoustics of violins misses much...
...intellectual capacities at that. And the whole disarmament field has been turned over to people like [Eugene] Rostow, Rowny, Perle and Burt.* It's a bit like the Administration's trying to give responsibility for human rights to this guy [Ernest] Lefever. The whole thing is tremendously Orwellian. I don't know how close these people are to the President. As for [Secretary of State Alexander] Haig, some Europeans talk about him as the only politically literate, experienced and dependable man in the U.S. Government right now. I just don't know. If they...
...Blackpool could not have been better timed. The growing discontent within her own party and even her own Cabinet was muted as the Tories, meeting last week in the seaside resort of Brighton, closed ranks to crow over their bitterly divided opposition. Exhorted Thatcher: "Let Labor's Orwellian nightmare of the left be a spur for us to rebuild the fortunes of this free nation...
...athletes also raised a little hell back at the Olympic Village, where Orwellian security measures were putting everyone on edge. Frustrations finally boiled over one night at the village discothèque, where several dozen Western athletes protested the customary 11 o'clock closing. As disco infernos go, it was pretty mild stuff: some boozy scuffling with Soviet police, a lot of hollering, a small-scale food fight. But Soviet officialdom took it very seriously, as a headline from TASS, the state news agency, made clear: THEY SHOULD BE THROWN BEHIND BARS...