Word: orwellianisms
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Pressures for protectionism under Orwellian euphemisms
Policymakers of the European Community have begun promoting what they call "organized liberty of exchange"-an Orwellian euphemism coined by French Prime Minister Raymond Barre. It means negotiated agreements limiting imports during hard times. An American variant of that idea is the "orderly marketing agreement" (OMA), which is emerging as the Carter Administration's chief response to protectionist clamor...
...cardholders who pay their accounts more slowly. Last May, however, Manhattan's Citibank began imposing a fee of 500 a month on the prompt payers. Bank officials protested that they were losing money handling the quickly settled accounts. Be that as it may, the charge marks a vaguely Orwellian first: customers now have to pay for the privilege of not using extended credit...
...Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts," Paul Johnson writes. Johnson is an Orwellian socialist deeply concerned for liberty, a dyspeptically progressive Roman Catholic, former editor of the left-wing British journal New Statesman, and a believer with a passion for accuracy. He has written a literary rarity, a highly readable, deeply learned, thoroughly fascinating account of 2,000 years of Christian history...
...foreign affairs, says Moynihan, there is something almost Orwellian about the transformation of the word liberal to mean the opposite of what it meant a decade or so ago. John Kennedy's inaugural address, which declared that the U.S. would defend freedom around the globe, was celebrated at the time. Now liberals oppose intervention...