Word: orwellianisms
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...egged on artificially, no place to run, Cocks crow at sockets to plug in the sun. If to such an Orwellian life I were fated, I would will myself never to be incubated...
...nine years ahead of Orwellian projections, every West German citizen may be officially known to his government by a twelve-digit number. The government has sent the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) a proposal that would identify each person by six digits indicating his birth date, a seventh his sex and the century of his birth, the next four to distinguish him from others born on the same day, and the last a "control" number-which would make Chancellor Willy Brandt Number 181213 3 1234 5 or something very close to that. The number will follow a person from birth...
...mention the late Francois Duvalier's secret police, the Tontons Macoutes, and define this term as Creole for "bogeyman." This would be better interpreted as a Creole corruption of tontons m'ecoutent, which is colloquial French for "The uncles are listening" and is basically equivalent to the Orwellian phrase "Big Brother is watching...
They've been playing this kind of absolutely cheap game, telling one story and doing something else, in the Orwellian context of this Administration. But now, of course, the aid and the support is open and clear and unlimited...
...Viet Nam War, in short, has produced its own version of the Orwellian Newspeak: Newcount. TIME Correspondent David Greenway recalls overhearing an American company commander, whose men had just found three enemy bodies, discussing with his platoon leaders what number to report to the battalion commander. "They decided on 20," writes Greenway. "But when I got back to Danang, I found the figure sent to Saigon on this engagement had grown...