Word: orwellianisms
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...that distant day when "the state will wither away," the party will remain. Through such devices as citizens' courts, voluntary "people's militia," and a reorganized political police whose new role is that of "friend and helper," Khrushchev has effectively replaced full-scale terror with the Orwellian technique of "mass discipline...
...already know too well the old dogmatic themes, the main eye-catcher was a gaudy catalogue of welfare benefits-free education, free school lunches, free rents, free transport, free electricity and water-that Soviet citizens are to have in 20 years. They were promised a Khrushchevian 1980, not an Orwellian 1984. Some of the promised benefits were already familiar to the West, but many a Russian family that now shares a congested small flat with one or two other families might take heart from the Kremlin's firm assurance that "during the 19705 every family, including newlyweds, will have...
...broadcasts from Cuba came booming in over Florida radios, nearly blotting out local U.S. stations. By flipping a dial on their TV sets, residents of Key West could see as well as hear the spectacle. In an Orwellian marathon lasting five nights running last week. Fidel Castro paraded 200, then 400, finally almost 1,000 captured rebels into Havana's Sports Palace and subjected them to a favorite pastime of the new Cuba, the televised inquisition...
...suggest that regionalism will culminate in a universal merger movement would be premature. The world is far from the Orwellian prediction of a globe divided into three continental states. But surely the unconscious emulation of the super-state pattern perceivable in regionalist unions will have more influence on world history than boiling soap had on the life of Mark Twain...
...page, is then sent scurrying to widely scattered pages throughout the book. This is the "branching" technique, which Crowder developed as an Air Force psychologist while tutoring technicians in troubleshooting on 8-47 bombsights. Crowder believes that his method is better fitted to individuals than Skinner's somewhat Orwellian linear system. Crowder's method is demonstrably effective in such problem-solving areas as labor-management relations...