George Orwell

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Aka Eric Arthur Blair

(1903-1950, United Kingdom)   |   |   |   | 

( fr ) George Orwell was a British author and journalist. Noted as a political and cultural commentator, as well as an accomplished novelist, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels written towards the end of his short life: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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20 days ago on MoroccoBoard.com  (George Orwell) 
Can Sir Alan fire the old Jewish stereotype?
If Alan Michael Sugar – soon to be Lord Sugar – didn’t exist, he might have been invented by antiSemites. That, at least, would have been the view of my maternal grandmother, part of a Jewish family that had built up a very successful business, starting with a barrow in the East End of London and ending up as the catering and food empire J Lyons & Co.Yet the family were at all times anxious not to draw attention to their success. None of them would have dreamt of buying a Rolls [Read more]
20 days ago on Times Online  (George Orwell) 
Oregon's 150th birthday hoopla overlooks the struggles of the
The scene in the black-and-white photograph is circa 1919, Oregon's 60th year as a state. To the left, a towering stump stands taller than a nearby windowless shack plopped down in the middle of a muddy, logged-out clearing. A mother, father and three small children pose outside, their backs against cracked and peeling boards; chickens peck at their feet. [Read more]
20 days ago on OregonLive.com  (George Orwell) 
One nation under jargon
For that to happen, the public must be able to understand what is going on. Public bodies will have to conduct their affairs in English because there seems to be a growing rage against the first language of government – gobbledegook, flimflam and blather. AS Brown addressed the Commons on Wednesday, teachers were digesting a report that condemned the “Orwellian language of performance management” in their profession. The Nuffield Review, a comprehensive look at secondary educat [Read more]
21 days ago on Times Online  (George Orwell) 
Cameras in public are fast becoming a way of life
Surveillance strategies differ, from the UK where you are so closely watched that the physical presence of the cameras is almost as tolerated as that of street lights. Elsewhere, it?s on an ad hoc need-basis, such as high-crime areas. And herein lies the dilemma, to what extent are surveillance systems acceptable without infringing on personal privacy? Some argue that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to be afraid of. Let the cameras lead the police to the criminals. [Read more]
21 days ago on Daily Nation  (George Orwell) 
Sex equals revolution? Not with the Internet
Sun, Jun 14, 2009 News Editorials 579138602 visits Front Page * Want Want demands apology * Iranian opposition cries foul play * DPP legislator pans Ma¡¦s approach to the Spratly Islands * N Korea says it plans to ¡¥weaponize¡¦ its plutonium * NY investigates big bar mitzvah held in jailhouse Taiwan News * KMT group in clash at East Gate * Taichung to offer weekly flight to Beijing: official * Premier gives graduating students words of advice * KMT legislator to manage Ma¡¦s [Read more]
21 days ago on Taipei Times  (George Orwell) 
Look! You fools, can't you see? You're next!
Just like George Orwell's 1984, the idea of Invasion of the Body Snatchers was thought to address the big questions of the time - and likewise the big questions of the present. Jack Finney could not have imagined the enduring relevance when he wrote the story in 1954, nor could Don Siegel, who directed the film two years later. It's still rated in the top-10 science fiction films, partly because the truth, as we know, can be stranger than fiction. [Read more]
21 days ago on Irish Times  (George Orwell) 
Failed novelist is top at Oxford Uni as scientist
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22 days ago on Wiener Zeitung  (George Orwell) 
President, Boise State University
When the Presidential Oversight Committeeof the BCS meets next week (June 15-19 in ColoradoSprings), perhaps it will consider how toapply the same values espoused and celebratedby American higher education across thenation to the most recognizable pastime andthe biggest business on many university campuses--intercollegiate football. There is considerableirony in the fact that in the highest templeof political correctness, American higher education,the BCS worships the false idols ofmonopoly, in [Read more]
22 days ago on SportingNews.com  (George Orwell) 
Global warming, climate change and the politics of language
They're not the first, of course. You'll notice that my headlines always have global warming in them (yes, I write my own headlines--feel free to suggest better ones). Yet most of the wire services use climate change, or have for the past three years. This is because someone finally noticed that the 'globe' is not 'warming.' The effects that have been noticed are entirely regional, and believe it or not, so far the effects of global warming consist primarily of making winter nights in Siberia an [Read more]
22 days ago on Examiner.com  (George Orwell) 
THE COLOUR COFFEE
At one level, I must confess to a sneaking sympathy for the grievance. I asked a young assistant in Tesco, the grocery supermarket, if there was an express counter where, with only two small purchases, I could avoid the long queues of shoppers with overflowing trolleys at all the counters. The boy looked at me as if I was asking for the moon, jabbered away in some Latin lingo and beckoned to a mate. Equally disapproving, the second boy pointed to the crowded cash machines and said, “There!” When [Read more]
22 days ago on Calcutta Telegraph  (George Orwell) 
Lunch with the FT: Jeff Skoll
Can you become a billionaire by accident? It seems unlikely. Surely wealth of that kind has to be fought for and won against almost impossible odds. Billionaires, you might think, should be imposing figures, battle-hardened veterans from the financial world.But if you had asked other diners at The Jam Factory in Oxford on a recent, damp lunchtime to pick out the billionaire in the room, I doubt they would have pointed to the FT?s guest, Jeff Skoll. Slim, slight even, with flyaway brown hair and [Read more]
22 days ago on Financial Times  (George Orwell) 
A Tale of Menus and Cultural Stew
Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visitwww.djreprints.com [Read more]
22 days ago on Wall Street Journal  (George Orwell) 
My dear aburo,
WORDS FOLLOW ME: Letter to a YoungWriter By Teju ColeJune 13, 2009 03:35AMTprintemail My dear aburo,How now? Let me begin with a confession: I am not qualified to give you advice. For a start, I am a young writer myself, hardly older than you, or perhaps you are even older than I am.I also recognise (as you surely recognise as well) that there are few things more resistant to tutoring than the creative arts. Most importantly, I know so little of your specific situation that in giving you any [Read more]
22 days ago on NEXT  (George Orwell) 
Growing Up Without Guns
Washington, D.C - -(AmmoLand.com)- While growing up, I knew there were guns and other arms, because the army and police had them. Us, ordinary people didn't need them. The saying was “my police protect me”. I don't think I ever saw a gun except in movies or those carried by police on the streets. Some people in remote mountain villages had small rifles and a limited amount of ammunition - mainly to shoot predator animals to protect their farm animals. At 13, police were going door to [Read more]
22 days ago on AmmoLand.com - Shooting Sports News  (George Orwell) 
American splendour
American splendourLast Updated: June 11. 2009 2:58PM UAE / June 11. 2009 10:58AM GMTWith Archie scheduled to wed, S Subramanian ponders the comic character’s career in public diplomacy.Over the course of history, many men have suffered the misfortune of having to choose between two women, but few have taken as long to decide as Archie Andrews. For 68 years now, Archie has bounced back and forth between Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge, veering often into romantic detours with other women, but alw [Read more]
23 days ago on The National  (George Orwell) 
Healing the Wounds of War: New Ancestral Shrines in Korea
Existing literature on South Korea’s democratic transition tends to focus on organized mass mobilization in the public sphere, notably the activism of dissident political leaders, intellectuals, students and the labor force. Although this focus is justified for a society where influential political discourses typically extend throughout the national society, it is also problematic through its lack of analytical attention to the organized actions and social developments taking place in loca [Read more]
23 days ago on Japan Focus  (George Orwell) 
The NYT And Torture: A Brief Recent History
« A Christianist Terror Threat | Main | Face Of The Day » 11 Jun 2009 08:17 pm The NYT And Torture: A Brief Recent History [Re-posted from earlier today]The latest NYT euphemism for torture is intense interrogation, another plausible translation of the Gestapo term, verschaerfte Vernehmung, for torture that broke no bones, drew no blood and left no permanent marks. The NYT has even tried to turn waterboarding into a twilight zone, calling it a technique merely that critics [Read more]
23 days ago on Atlantic Online  (George Orwell) 
Is Orwell's fictional ?1984? finally upon us?
Is Big Brother about to take over as George Orwell pointed out in his novel, ?1984?? Written in 1949, the plot sounds eerily familiar. [Read more]
23 days ago on Scottsboro Daily Sentinel  (George Orwell) 
We must come together as a people
George Orwell took up similar questions in 1937. In The Road to WIgan Pier, he explains why under- or unemployed folk reject the sort of frugality we [Read more]
23 days ago on Schenectady Gazette  (George Orwell) 
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