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Televisionaries confidently forecast the day when every home will have its private network (so mother can keep track of the kids) and telephones will come equipped with TV screens. But there is a chill in the air: in that event, would Big Brother and his thought-controlling telescreen be far behind? Active as peeping TV is today, Big Brother is still a kid brother...
...Supreme Court to decide whether legalization of wiretap evidence is a good measure, as Congress has done so often in the past. Under any Supreme Court, discretion is the function of Congress, and discretion should show that once wire-tapping becomes legal evidence, the days of George Orwell's telescreen machines cannot lay far in the future...
...Just Stroll." Half an hour later, on the telescreen, came the Republicans' most novel message over the new medium: an hour-long program, called "Crusade in America." From Eisenhower and Nixon seated together informally in Boston, it flashed across the country, reaching party voices as distant as California's Governor Earl Warren, picking up issues of the campaign (e.g., a cinema snatch of Theron Lamar Caudle, of mink coat fame, testifying before congressional investigators), returning to Ike at midnight for a last brief appeal...
...which he was then literary editor. Orwell's is the better book in every way, but his debt to We is quickly apparent. In the Russian's novel the characters live in glass houses where state agents can watch them; in 1984 they are spied on by "telescreen." Zamiatin's dictator, the Benefactor, is a counterpart of Orwell's Big Brother. In both, a love affair leads to the hero's undoing. In both, he rebels against the state, is trapped, punished and spiritually crushed...
...dictatorships. Britain, freedom's old home, is "Airstrip One" and its people, A.D. 1984, are controlled in every thought and act by Big Brother. Winston Smith, the pathetic hero, wakes in the morning to compulsory gymnastics directed by a virago who can see him from a two-way "telescreen" which takes pictures as well as projects them.* Winston's day is spent falsifying history to suit Big Brother, and when Winston rebels, Big Brother has ready for him a deeper slavery. There was a real danger that the trapped, submissive Winston Smith might be as truly...