Word: unperson
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...there a college student alive who hasn't heard of George Orwell? Or his prescient novels Animal Farm and 1984 - at least in their Hollywood versions? Or any of those chilling words and phrases he gave us: Newspeak, double-think, unperson, cold war, Ministry of Truth, Big Brother is watching, some are more equal than others? Fifty-three years after Orwell's death, his books have sold more than 40 million copies in 60 languages, and a million new readers discover him every year. His reputation as a champion of freedom, decency and clean prose has long outlived...
...Packwood had suddenly become an unperson -- the Senator from Not. During freshman orientation time in Washington last week, 11 newly < elected Senators and 110 fledgling members of the House fumbled their way around Capitol Hill. But as they consulted with senior lawmakers about the bewilderingly complex rules of their august institutions, the office of Oregon's normally gregarious five-term Republican Senator was eerily silent, except for an occasional reporter's unwelcome call...
...Crimson has sidestepped official league policy in acknowledging talent of this "unperson." The next step is to fight to have history reinstated so as to coincide with truth. Jim Golen...
...City's John J. O'Connor, 65, who acknowledged the news by noting, "The Holy Father is anxious that all bishops practice his teaching." Another apparent signal of the Pope's conservative views came when perhaps the most famous Roman Catholic woman in the U.S. suddenly became a Vatican unperson. Former Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Geraldine Ferraro, 49, who had some celebrated clashes with O'Connor over the abortion issue last year, had a ten- minute private audience with the Pope last week. When reporters asked for details, Vatican officials offered a terse "no comment," and would not provide...
...heroes and elder statesmen. The Soviet Union has no such tradition. The top leaders there either die on the job like Lenin and Stalin, or are ousted and relegated, like Georgi Malenkov, to diplomatic exile, or, like Nikita Khrushchev, to virtual house arrest and the ignominy of being an unperson. Since Khrushchev's overthrow in 1964, only two higher-echelon Soviet leaders have retired because of age: Anastas Mikoyan and Nikolai Shvernik. Numerous others-including the dynamic opportunist Alexander Shelepin, the Ukrainian strongman Pyotr Shelest and the moderate reformer Gennady Voronov-have been expelled from the Politburo and denounced...