Word: orwellianisms
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...idea--or ideal--shared by the youth of America and the intellectual left had not come. How could that be? How, after the duplicity in the conduct of Southeast Asian policy of American officials was coming to light and administration justifications of the war were sounding more Orwellian by the day ("we are fighting this war for peace"), could the American public not follow this vanguard...
...practiced by President Park Chung Hee, "modern democracy" has become an Orwellian synonym for despotic one-man rule. Since January alone, Park has proclaimed four restrictive "emergency decrees," one of which bans any attempt to amend or criticize his custom-tailored constitution, which gives him virtually unlimited powers...
...education was dedicated to fukoku kyohei [enrich the nation, strengthen soldiers]. Boys in the class were shaven-pated like Japanese soldiers in their barracks. Like soldiers, too, they were expected to snap to attention each time the teacher dropped that sacred word, tenno [emperor]. They did-like so many Orwellian robots...
...Offense is defense, defense is offense. Killing people is good, killing weapons is bad." This grisly piece of Orwellian doublethink may seem a decade premature, but it has already served 20 years as the basis for U.S. nuclear strategy. Judging from the historical record, it has served rather well. There has been no nuclear war, and with one significant exception, we have shown commendable restraint in brandishing our nuclear sword...
Coase, 63, is no admirer of Orwellian Big Brothers. A British subject who has taught in the U.S. since 1951, he favors Barry Goldwater among politicians and has a low opinion of Government's ability to regulate anything properly. Ideally, he is against any public intervention in private enterprise. But that caveat is irrelevant to his thesis...