Word: doublethink
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...remember him solely for this final volume is like recalling a life by its terminal illness. Indeed when he wrote 1984, Orwell was in the last throes of tuberculosis. The book's pervasive slogan, "Big Brother Is Watching You"; the portmanteau words "New-speak," "bellyfeel," "doublethink"; the inverted graffiti, "Freedom Is Slavery," "Ignorance Is Strength"-all these may be indelible. Nonetheless, if some of 1984's predictions have come true, most have not. If the book lives, it is more as a warning than as prophecy...
...aware of the shabbiness, the flabbiness of the party lie. Among themselves they ridicule it. And then cynically, in the same breath, in angry protests and articles, ringingly and rhetorically repeat the very same lie, reinforcing it by their pseudo eloquence and style! Where did [George] Orwell discover his doublethink, what was his model if not the Soviet intelligentsia of the '30s and '40s? And since that time, this doublethink has been worked to perfection and become a perennial, vitally important device...
...then somebody should have told them that there is more to the art of allusion than straight imitation. There is the self-consciousness that registers not the action but the joke in its reverberations; it puns off not the sense but the sensibility of the thing, a game of doublethink. But the self-consciousness of this movie is solipsistic. It is so linear in the literalness of its interpretation that it two-times rather than doublethinks Fitzgerald's story--it's all copycat. Fitzgerald might be the magic mountain and the movie-makers the mouse, for it's loyal...
...Offense is defense, defense is offense. Killing people is good, killing weapons is bad." This grisly piece of Orwellian doublethink may seem a decade premature, but it has already served 20 years as the basis for U.S. nuclear strategy. Judging from the historical record, it has served rather well. There has been no nuclear war, and with one significant exception, we have shown commendable restraint in brandishing our nuclear sword...
...take anything straight. Every feeling inspires her to seek its underside--feeling sexy she waits for guilt, feeling uninhibited she waits for fear, feeling love she locates dependence. Analysis taught her not to trust her impulses; it planted a sentry in her brain to doublethink her every move. And she never bade him exit. Now she trusts herself so little that she's glued herself into the groove of her problems. She gives rein to the antagonistic thoughts that spar in her brain and lock there like chain mail. And look, will you, at what she's done...