Word: orwellianisms
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Watergate has added a distinctly Orwellian tinge to the national atmosphere. With Big Brother not only watching but bugging and burglarizing, it is not hard to imagine a trend toward counterespionage of paranoid proportions. Future offices of public officials will no doubt be lined with lead to foil electronic snoopers; windows, even those high up, will be etched with sensor tape, attuned both to touch and long-range bugging beams; closed-circuit television sets will monitor every door and elevator, and squads of men in gumshoes will patrol rooftops...
...notably bellicose ring to these proposals. He had no intention, he said, of just negotiating another round of world tariff cuts. "We have gone into too many negotiations abroad in which all we have done is to negotiate down whereas others have negotiated up," the President said. With Orwellian logic, he added: "In order to get a policy of freer trade, we must always have in the background protection...
...visit to Seoul last week, TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel found an Orwellian atmosphere. "When you enter the door to the biggest newspaper, Dong-a Ilbo," he cabled, "you have to watch out that you don't get scraped in the face by the bayonets that two grim-looking paratroopers hold crossed on their M16s. For obvious reasons, it was hard to get much comment from Koreans. But passers-by appeared visibly startled when they saw the big American-made M48 tank menacingly pointing its gun from the entrance of the National Assembly. A soldier waved...
Beginning in November 1971, Lavelle began to send his pilots North on "planned protective reaction" strikes against installations that Lavelle felt threatened the safety of his crews simply by their existence. The phrase is, of course, an Orwellian contradiction in terms, and the actions were clearly against regulations. To justify and conceal that fact, an entire double-accounting system grew up. Sergeant Lonnie Franks, who first blew the whistle on Lavelle, claimed that he and 200 other officers and enlisted men often made out and passed along two sets of reports on unauthorized missions. One was truthful, and was filed...
...could change forever the relationships between husbands and wives, witnesses and juries, political leaders and voters, businessmen and customers. It could sharply reduce the output of talk all over by making everyone think twice before speaking. It could also bring closer the Orwellian society of 1984. The remarkable but ominous device that might cause these changes is the P.S.E. (for Psychological Stress Evaluator) which, its inventors believe, can use voice recordings to detect lies without the cooperation or even the presence of the speaker...