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He taught French for a year at Eton, where Eric Blair ( later to become George Orwell ) and Stephen Runciman were among his pupils, but was remembered as an incompetent and hopeless teacher who couldn ’ t keep discipline.
A prominent critic was George Orwell, who frequently referred to him in his essays and diaries as " A Catholic Apologist " and accused him of being " silly-clever ", in line with his criticisms of G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox and Wyndham-Lewis.
In 2000, after the U. S. version of the CBS program " Big Brother " premiered, the Estate of George Orwell sued CBS and its production company " Orwell Productions, Inc ." in federal court in Chicago for copyright and trademark infringement.
nl: Big Brother ( George Orwell )
From 1942 to 1944 George Orwell was a proponent of Basic English, but in 1945 he became critical of universal languages.
In his essay " Politics and the English Language ", George Orwell observes that political language serves to distort and obfuscate reality.
The Committee also presented the George Orwell Award for Honesty and Clarity in Public Language for 1975-76 to Professor Hugh Rank who created the pattern.
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George Orwell uses Ecclesiastes ( specifically 9: 11 ) prominently in Politics and the English Language to exemplify the qualities of " good English.
George Orwell wrote in 1944 that " the word ' Fascism ' is almost entirely meaningless ... almost any English person would accept ' bully ' as a synonym for ' Fascist '".
George Orwell
* George Orwell ( 1903 – 50 ).
* Animal Farm ( 1945 ) by George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 ), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist.
He was also spending time with Eleanor Jacques, but her attachment to Dennis Collings remained an obstacle to his hopes of a more serious relationship. The pen-name " George Orwell " was inspired by the River Orwell
Four days later, he wrote to Moore, suggesting the pseudonyms P. S. Burton ( a name he used when tramping ), Kenneth Miles, George Orwell, and H. Lewis Allways.
He finally adopted the nom de plume George Orwell because, as he told Eleanor Jacques, " It is a good round English name.
", which has since been widely attributed to Orwell ; see Bibliography of George Orwell.
Such a company " George Orwell Productions Ltd " ( GOP Ltd ) was set up on 12 September 1947 although the service agreement was not then put into effect.
Other writers admired by Orwell included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Yevgeny Zamyatin.
George Woodcock suggested that the last two sentences characterised Orwell as much as his subject.

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* " Politics and the English Language " ( 1946 ), by George Orwell, criticizing the use of verbose language in contemporary political British writing.
even garnered some attention outside of literary criticism, having several pages devoted to it in a chapter on the American New Right in Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics by George Johnson ( 1983 ).
* George McKay ( 2005 ) Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain, chapter one ' New Orleans jazz, protest ( Aldermaston ) and carnival ( Beaulieu Festival 1956-61 )'.
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think is a 1996 book by cognitive linguist George Lakoff.
A less extreme, but similar, claim is made by George Lakoff in his book Moral Politics and his later book on framing, Don't Think of an Elephant !.
* Lakoff, George ( 1995 ) Moral Politics.
* George Stimpson, A Book about American Politics New York ; Harper 1952, p. 133.
" In this bleak cynicism about political ideas and political life, The Roman Revolution strongly resembled another controversial historical masterwork, The Structure of English Politics at the Accession of George III, published in 1930 by the specialist in eighteenth-century British political history, Sir Lewis B. Namier.
* McKay, George ( 2005 ) Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain.
This critical turn in sociocultural anthropology during the mid-1980s can, in large part, can be traced to the influence of the now classic ( and often contested ) text, Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, ( 1986 ) edited by James Clifford and George Marcus.
The most notable essay on this theme is George Orwell's " Politics and the English Language " ( See newspeak )
* Oklahoma Politics and Policies with Robert E. England, George Humphreys ( 1992 ), ISBN 0-8032-8136-6
* 1992 Oklahoma Center for the Book: Outstanding Nonfiction Book Award, for the book Oklahoma Politics & Policies: Governing the Sooner State ( with David Morgan and George Humphreys ), University of Nebraska Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8032-8136-6
In separate centuries, Florence Nightingale and Kate Millet both remarked on the eventual subordination of Dorothea's own dreams to those of her admirer, Ladislaw ;< ref > Millet, Sexual Politics 1972, Nightingale quoted in George Eliot and Gender, Kate Flint 2001
* Mach, Thomas S. " Gentleman George " Hunt Pendleton: Party Politics and Ideological Identity in Nineteenth-Century America.
George Orwell complained about overuse of the ' not un ...' construction in his essay " Politics and the English Language ".
For more information on cycles of empire and hegemony, consult " Long Cycles in World Politics " by George Modelski ( 1987 ).
" Politics and the English Language " ( 1946 ) is an essay by George Orwell criticising " ugly and inaccurate " contemporary written English.
* Politics and the English Language ( George Orwell )
George Orwell in Politics and the English Language ( 1946 ) criticized the use of euphemisms and convoluted phrasing as a means of hiding insincerity.
* Brad Rice, " Lester Maddox and the Politics of Populism ," in Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee, ed.
The report was criticised at the time by Michael Gove ( now Secretary of State for Education ) in The Times, who said that " The tendentious reasoning and illiberal recommendations of that document have been brilliantly anatomised by the ethical socialists Norman Dennis and George Erdos and the Kurdish academic Ahmed al-Shahi in the Civitas pamphlet Racist Murder and Pressure Group Politics.

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