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...Benisch” that Young was forwarding to Canning. One wonders if Dershowitz also consulted Peters’s original source for the term “turnspeak”—a coinage of Peters, which she says was inspired by George Orwell??s 1984, but which Dershowitz, confounded by his massive borrowings from Peters, not once but twice credits directly to Orwell (“George Orwell??s ‘turnspeak,’” “Orwellian turnspeak”). On which pages of 1984 did Dershowitz find...
...George Orwell??s infamous year started poorly for the men of Pi Eta. A copy of their club newsletter—containing such gems (allegedly meant as jokes) as the phrase quoted on the Perspective posters and a reference to female party guests as “a bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter”—was accidentally released and circulated in April. More than 100 students rallied in front of the club the following Saturday night during a party, and that Tuesday, Dean of the College John...
...writes in his essay “Politics and the English Language,” “It [the English language] becomes ugly and inaccurate because our throughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” Orwell??s point is well-taken in today’s climate; the sloppy speech of our leaders fails to spur independent thought...
...something that can be felt and understood by others. The narrator becomes the link between writer and reader, allowing the latter to feel the truths that the writer tries to express through the story, without the self-righteous whining or high-mindedness of the writer interfering. Gornick uses George Orwell??s “Shooting an Elephant,” as an example of the importance of narrative voice. In life, Orwell was often an ugly and brutish man, falling prey to his own bitter insecurities, sexism, rabid anti-communism and other flaws...