In mid-October of 1949, a bedridden George Orwell, his health broken at 46 by tuberculosis, married a young editor named Sonia Brownell in his London hospital room. Reaction to the nuptials ranged ...

Wednesday, December 27, 1989 - George Orwell, in the novel ``1984,'' called it Doublespeak. Doublespeak is the ability to accept two contradictory ideas and believe they are both true. War is peace… ...

In them, Orwell’s doublespeak—that jargon of purposeful obscurity—gets one more layer of insulating irony: The former ...

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In his science fiction classic “1984,” George Orwell accurately predicted the rise of doublespeak: political slogans that stand reality on its head by mislabeling. But there is one key element ...

Orwell explored what mutual corruption of language and politics in a totalitarian regime looks like in his dystopian “1984.” In the world of “1984,” the only crime is “thoughtcrime.” ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The literary executor of George Orwell's estate is accusing Amazon.com of committing an Orwellian crime: doublespeak. In a letter published this week in The New York Times, Bill ...

– Doublespeak. Orwell writes: “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies ...

Orwell’s perennially relevant dystopian novel is a condemnation of the Soviet Union’s embrace of Stalinism and the censorship and “double speak” of Nazi Germany.