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A writer of Orwell's integrity -- he sustained physical as well as professional wounds for it -- will report the truth, anyway, when both militant sides in a conflict are deeply wrong.
Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS Jim Sleeper 2011
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Are the occupiers of Wall Street quite as bad as Stalin's Communists and Orwell's pigs?
Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS Jim Sleeper 2011
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More than 70 years after the publication of Homage to Catalonia, a million of Orwell's fellow countrymen have followed his lead, although their motivation for coming to Spain may be different.
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The idea that "cutting Is reform" is in the tradition of Orwell's "War Is Peace."
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Ministry of Truth: New Fronts in the War on Social Security RJ 2011
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Orwell's advice about carrying that small dictionary in the pocket to whip out at a moment's notice still holds true.
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Next week, Mr. Child will take part in the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, England, where he will reveal his darker side, as he selects his crime-writing pet peeves and relegates them to what he has titled "Room 101," in reference to George Orwell's fictional torture chamber in the novel "1984."
Lee Child Listens to Blues, Finds a New Rhythm Javier Espinoza 2011
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The best essays, like George Orwell's, are tough but not fanatical, delight in the commonplace and ambiguous and can see the world as easily in a ham sandwich as a morning rose.
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In George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, the fundamental basis for the totalitarian state that he portrays is the fear and hatred of the foreign enemy, Oceania.
Alan Grayson: The End of Fear? Alan Grayson 2011
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He has a point, but there is a danger that a genuine enemy may be leveraged by the state as Orwell's imaginary enemy, eroding our freedoms and distracting our attention from their agenda.
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If the phrase also reminds you of the reality-twisting "Ministry of Truth" from Orwell's 1984, that's appropriate too.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Ministry of Truth: New Fronts in the War on Social Security RJ 2011
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