I found a wonderful letter to the New York Times a while ago, and your comment reminded me to post it to my blog (at <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/03/need-for-reform.html>):
<blockquote>To the Editor:
More than half a century ago, George Orwell warned, in his essay "Politics and the English Language," against the immorality implicit in the use, especially by government officials, of intentionally misleading words. I think of Orwell's essay every time that President Bush speaks of the need for "reform" of Social Security and tort law.
Orwell's contemporary George Bernard Shaw got it right when he reputedly retorted to an adversary whom he was debating: "Do not speak to me, sir, of reform. Things are bad enough as they are!"
JAMES O. FREEDMAN Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 24, 2005
The writer is president emeritus of Dartmouth College and the University of Iowa.</blockquote> -- Yoshie
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