Word: orwellianisms
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Newsmen who asked Powell last week why he had never criticized any Red action were rewarded with Powell's own version of Orwellian doublespeak: "You just don't understand. In China, there's a new appreciation of the role of the press...
...Method of Three." For the working man, life became an Orwellian nightmare of cant and slogans, pressures and penalties. He went to a job picked for him by the government. At day's end he shuffled from the plant in shoddy shoes that cost too much (about 100 hours' wages) and wore out too soon to a home where the larder was lean (a pound of butter, when it was available, cost ten hours' wages) and hope even leaner. The regime coerced him into volunteer, unpaid "peace shifts." He had to march in parades to demand more...
...power to the Politburo (in charge of policy) and the Orgburo (in charge of organization). The present Politburo (twelve members, including Stalin, Molotov, Malenkov) is probably the most powerful group in history. Under the new rules, the Politburo and the Orgburo will be merged and the two ugly Orwellian names replaced by the stern old Latin "Presidium." There is no reason to assume that the new Presidium will be anything but a more efficient Politburo...
...George Orwell, the name he long intended to legalize, he had written a dozen books, fiction and nonfiction. Only six have been published in the U.S., but all of them, whatever their shortcomings, are distinguished by a forthrightness of mind and a limber, cutting style that are singularly Orwellian, unmistakably original...
...Last week some indignant citizens of New York saw an Orwellian shadow in Grand Central Terminal broadcasts which they could not turn off (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...