Orwell’s time-tested warnings
Boston Globe
by Jeff Jacoby
06/21/09
Nineteen eighty-four opens with one of the most famous first lines in modern English literature, the vaguely unnerving ‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ The line it ends with is even more famous, and considerably more sinister: ‘He loved Big Brother.’ George Orwell’s brilliant, bitter novel turns 60 this month, but after all these years it has lost none of its nightmarish chill. … Nineteen Eighty-Four was Orwell’s warning of what unchecked state power can become...
http://tinyurl.com/luhb29
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=Orwell
by Jeff Jacoby
06/21/09
Nineteen eighty-four opens with one of the most famous first lines in modern English literature, the vaguely unnerving ‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.’ The line it ends with is even more famous, and considerably more sinister: ‘He loved Big Brother.’ George Orwell’s brilliant, bitter novel turns 60 this month, but after all these years it has lost none of its nightmarish chill. … Nineteen Eighty-Four was Orwell’s warning of what unchecked state power can become...
http://tinyurl.com/luhb29
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=Orwell
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