Word: orwellianisms
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...years after his death at 46, Orwell is enshrined in the language as a cliché for apocalypse. Virtually every doomsday prophecy uses "Orwellian" to describe any impingement on freedom, from imprisonment to wiretapping. Yet the word derives from Orwell's least characteristic book...
...little early to tell, of course, but there does seem to be some evidence of an Orwellian irony in the making: be cause of the negative symbolic value of George Orwell's frightening vision of the future as contained in his novel 1984, a good many professional prophets would just as soon not refer directly to the year of the same name. No bureaucrat, how ever, is ready to confess such fears. A TIME correspondent went last week to that great clearinghouse of U.S. Government statistics, the Office of Management and Budget, and was told, "No body has anything...
...daily lives--but today it is central to everything we think and do. Yes, men and women are separate--and some of us are more equal than others. And while the existence of Radcliffe is symptomatic of that separation, it is also part of the cure for our Orwellian equality. Radcliffe's is symptomatic of that separation, it is also part of the cure for our Orwellian equality. Radcliffe's autonomy has helped to legitimize the education of women in its own right. So, in its most innocent interpretation, it is ironic that just when women are taking...
...seems that Birmingham may have a respite from the winged Orwellian threat. During one flight demonstration, a grenade attached to the bomber's underside detonated prematurely and wiped out Bailey's one-craft air force. Undaunted, the designers are now at work on an unproved model. If successful, they dream of a fleet of RPVS prowling overhead long before...
...addition, undisguised inflation exists in sectors not subject to iron-fisted government control-imports, goods sold on sanctioned free markets and those peddled in widespread black markets. There is an Orwellian rip-off on the prices of so-called new products. By making the most minute change in any item-even installing a new car heater -a factory manager can get it classified as new and kick up the price. That does not count as an "increase" because the product theoretically has just come to the market. In the Soviet Union, the latest model Volga car costs $12,170, about...