Word: doublethink
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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After fanaticism, Orwell attacks intellectual humbug. In Politics and the English Language he excoriates the light-fingered journalists, heavy-handed politicos and potato-mouthed bureaucrats who, through carelessness or snobbery, are maiming the English language. In The Prevention of Literature he baits, hooks and dries the doublethink Communist intellectuals. Unlike most American criticism, which is written in a weird graduate school code, Orwell's literary essays are directed, without condescension or pedantry, to the non-expert who reads for pleasure...