Word: orwellianisms
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...surface, it is the realization of an Orwellian fantasy, a chilling page out of Nineteen Eighty-Four. To avoid the kind of terrorist attack that killed eleven Israelis in Munich four years ago, the Austrians constructed what they hope is a guerrilla-proof village. To the athletes checking in last week, initial impressions were unnerving: an 8-ft.-high chain-link fence surrounding the compound, electronically wired to set off an alarm at the slightest touch; a main gate guarded by submachine guns; and a gauntlet of identity checks by sentries, who bark at athletes, "Show me your pass." Says...
...nobody. Liberals conceded that while it will avert a sudden sharp rise in heating-oil and gasoline prices, it also virtually guarantees that Americans will go on using energy profligately. As for conservatives, the Wall Street Journal summed up their feelings by branding the bill a "monument to the Orwellian leviathan"; nearly every section "involves an infringement of individual rights or property rights." The controversial bill is politically palatable, but it will leave the nation far from the goal of energy self-sufficiency. Major provisions...
...create is a world of futility, reminiscent of novels about India, by Indian writers writing in English, such as Narayan and U.S. Naipal. Like Naipal's Mr. Stone, Styles has the distinctive resigned sensibility of a colonized people, an intelligent people who know their supposed masters are either insecure Orwellian sahibs or bigotted idiots, but who put up with them, along with the other discomforts of the world, with a shrug...
Recently an informal group of linguistic vigilantes has risen up to ridicule American abuses and to warn, in terms alternately playful and despairing, that a culture so heedless of its language is headed toward a state of corrupt, Orwellian gibberish These writers have found a responsive audience; people obsessed with good English almost enjoy the feeling that they belong to an embattled cult. NBC Commentator Edwin Newman's Strictly Speaking, a catalogue of ugly Americanisms and verbal atrocities, was 26 weeks on the bestseller lists. A Pulitzer prizewinning writer, Jean Stafford, has been conducting a crusade of sorts against...
...Brock believes is that drivers who know what they're doing are no danger driving at high speeds on the interstates." In fact, he said, they're safer, because they're paying more attention to what they're doing. Cruising around at 55 mph, people lapse into zombiehood, an Orwellian coma, lulled into deadly unconscious by the AM radios...