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Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Nov 4 15:15:18 PST 2002


Michael Pollak wrote:


>Or to put that more pithily: does he think the utterances of the Bush
>Administration are Orwellian? And if not, why not?

I just got the book and am only a few pages into it, but he offers these definitions of "Orwellian": "to imply crushing tyranny and fear and conformism" and "to recognize that human resistance to these terrors is unquenchable." The sense in which "Eastasia isn't our enemy, Eastasia is our friend!" doesn't appear.

Doug



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