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...will stop the moment we want it to stop, and no sooner, and if we genuinely want it to stop the method adopted hardly matters." "Political chaos," he continued to stress, "is connected with the decay of language . . . one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end." To that end, Orwell devoted his life. His work endures, as lucid and vigorous as the day it was written. The proper way to remember George Orwell, finally, is not as a man of numbers-1984 will pass, not Nineteen Eighty-Four-but as a man of letters...
...Such verbal knee jerks might be dismissed as harmless. But they never were by Orwell. "The slovenliness of our language," he wrote in 1946, "makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts." And it is a surpassing irony that the title Orwell made famous has become a symptom of the very sloppiness he deplored: what he called a "Meaningless Word," a ramshackle abstraction inviting everyone to come in and stop thinking for a while...
Besides, I did not discuss last spring's Third World activities at the Law School or with the Freshman Dean's Office. When I discussed campus minority organizations, I did not mention the lack of institutional support--monetary or verbal--for these groups...
Much of the misunderstanding has centered around the "definition" of sexual harassment used in the survey. Deans Rosovsky and Lewis, in an apparent attempt to minimize "press sensationalism" have implied that the definition used in the survey was overly broad because it included verbal harassment and behaviours such as "unwanted looks and gestures...
However, the leagal definition of harassment includes not only directly corcing sexual relations, but also "the creation of a hostile of offensive work or academic environment." Clearly verbal comments, and looks and gestures can create a hostile or offensive environment, depending on repeatedness or context. This is why we included a long list of unwanted sexual attentions on the survey, and then categorized the seriousness of incidents with regard to a whole set of critical factors, including repeatedness, context and the impact on the victim...