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 ...

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

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. FILE - This undated file photo shows writer George Orwell, author of "1984." The literary executor of George Orwell’s ...

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… ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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

Do you recall “Newspeak” and “Doublespeak” in George Orwell’s novel 1984? It was the language of the authoritarian government of Oceania designed to limit the ability of the populace to ...

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.