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In his 1946 essay " Politics and the English Language ", George Orwell wrote: Bad writers – especially scientific, political, and sociological writers – are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.
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Faulkner's total works today, and in fact those of his works which existed in 1946 when Mr. Cowley made his comment, or in 1939, when Mr. O'Donnell wrote his essay, reveal no such simple attitude toward the South.
His experiences there were the basis of his essay How the Poor Die, published in 1946.
In his essay Politics and the English Language ( 1946 ), Orwell wrote about the importance of precise and clear language, arguing that vague writing can be used as a powerful tool of political manipulation because it shapes the way we think.
The critic Clement Greenberg, with Jackson Pollock, saw Sobel's work there in 1946, and in his essay " American-Type ' Painting " Greenberg cited those works as the first instance of all-over painting he had seen, stating that " Pollock admitted that these pictures had made an impression on him ".
Even though Breton by 1946 responded rather negatively to the subject of music with his essay Silence is Golden, later Surrealists, such as Paul Garon, have been interested in — and found parallels to — Surrealism in the improvisation of jazz and the blues.
One of Patchen's biggest literary supporters was the novelist Henry Miller who wrote a long essay on Patchen, entitled Patchen: Man of Anger and Light in 1946.
In response to Patchen's novel The Journal of Albion Moonlight ( 1941 ), prior to its publication, Henry Miller praised the work in the long essay Patchen: Man of Anger and Light which was published in book form in 1946.
" He places Coming Up For Air alongside Orwell's 1946 essay Some Thoughts on the Common Toad where he had written that, " retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and-toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable ".
George Orwell wrote about the song in his 1946 essay Riding Down from Bangor.
" Politics and the English Language " ( 1946 ) is an essay by George Orwell criticising " ugly and inaccurate " contemporary written English.
A 1999 study found that the essay was reprinted 118 times in 325 editions of 58 readers published between 1946 and 1996 that were intended for use in college-level composition courses.
** Complete essay with search option, which cites source as Horizon, April 1946
In 1946, William K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley published a classic and controversial New Critical essay entitled " The Intentional Fallacy ", in which they argued strongly against the relevance of an author's intention, or " intended meaning " in the analysis of a literary work.
Economics in One Lesson is an introduction to free market economics written by Henry Hazlitt and published in 1946, based on Frédéric Bastiat's essay ( English: " What is Seen and What is Not Seen ").
" A Nice Cup of Tea " is an essay by British writer George Orwell, first published in the Evening Standard newspaper of 12 January 1946.
In 1946, writer George Orwell wrote an impassioned essay, " Politics and the English Language ", criticising what he saw as the dangers of " ugly and inaccurate " contemporary written English – particularly in politics where pacification can be used to mean "... defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets ...".
In 1946 he wrote his most famous essay, titled " Darakuron " (" On Decadence "), which examined the role of bushido during the war.
In 1946, in the essay Politics and the English Language ( 1946 ), George Orwell recommended the active voice as an elementary principle of composition: " Never use the passive where you can use the active.
Popularity dwindled a bit after WW-II ( although George Orwell mentions it very favourably in his 1946 essay on early American literature, " Riding Down from Bangor "), but started rising again in the 1980s.
The George Braque exhibition at the Tate Gallery in 1946 deeply impressed him and he wrote an essay on Braque for The New English Weekly.
1946 and Politics
* " Politics and the English Language " ( 1946 ), by George Orwell, criticizing the use of verbose language in contemporary political British writing.
* Schwarz, Bill "' The People ' in History: the Communist Party Historians ' Group, 1946 – 56 " from Making Histories: Studies in History-Writing and Politics, edited by Richard Johnson, London: Hutchinson, 1982.
" Politics and the English Language " was originally published in the April 1946 issue of the journal Horizon ( volume 13, issue 76, pages 252-265 ).
George Orwell in Politics and the English Language ( 1946 ) criticized the use of euphemisms and convoluted phrasing as a means of hiding insincerity.
* George Orwell, Politics and the English Language ( 1946 )
“ Hedda Hopper, Hollywood Gossip, and the Politics of Racial Representation in Film, 1946 – 1948 ,” Journal of African American History, 93 ( Winter 2008 ), 36 – 63.
George Orwell wrote in his 1946 article, " Politics and the English Language ", that the term " cul de sac " is another foreign word used in English as pretentious diction, and is unnecessary.
* The Christian in Politics ( 1946 )
Warner contract player Jane Harker co-starred as Joe's wife, Alice, in eight comedies, beginning with So You Want to Play the Horses in 1946 and ending with So You Want to Build a House in 1948 .. Phyllis Coates would start her screen career by taking up the role of Alice later that year in So You Want to Be in Politics.
* Sami M. Moubayed, The Politics of Damascus 1920 – 1946.
These experiences and his related research formed the basis for his first book, The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan: Politics of Reform and Modernization, 1840 – 1946 ( 1969, Stanford University Press ).
He took a BA ( Hons ) in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics ( 1941, MA ) 1946 ) and a DPhil in Social Anthropology in 1947, with a thesis entitled The position of the chief in the modern political system of Ashanti: a study of the influence of contemporary social changes on Ashanti political institutions.
Although some purveyors of usage advice, including George Orwell ( see Politics and the English Language, 1946 ) and William Strunk, Jr. and E. B.
For example, despite Orwell's advice to avoid the passive, his Politics and the English Language ( 1946 ) employs passive voice for about 20 percent of its constructions.
* Stone, Clarence N., Regime Politics Governing Atlanta: 1946 – 1988, 1989, University Press of Kansas
Newmark ( born 1946 ) is a government and history teacher ( particularly AP Government and Politics, AP US History, AP European History, and America at War ) at Raleigh Charter High School in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1946 and English
* 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, English politician
* 1946 – Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist and composer ( UK, The Tony Williams Lifetime, HoBoLeMa, and Tempest )
* 1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( King Crimson and Bad Company ) ( d. 2006 )
* 1946 – Jack Straw, English politician
* 1946 – Tony Robinson, English actor
* 1946 – Terry Nutkins, English television host and author ( d. 2012 )
* 1946 – Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, and producer ( The Who and Plastic Ono Band ) ( d. 1978 )
* 1946 – Hayley Mills, English actress
* 1946 – Maureen Starkey Tigrett, English hairdresser, wife of Isaac Tigrett ( d. 1994 )
* 1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist ( b. 1883 )
* 1946 – Christopher Ellison, English actor
* 1946 – Trevor Pinnock, English conductor and harpsichordist
* European Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Paul Hazard ( 1946, English translation 1954 )
* 1946 – Lesley Judd, English TV presenter and dancer
* 1946 – John Stapleton, English television presenter
* 1946 – Alan Rickman, English actor
* 1946 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor ( d. 2011 )
* 1946 – Ian Porterfield, English footballer ( d. 2007 )
* 1946 – Robin Cook, English politician ( d. 2005 )
* 1946 – Ian Lavender, English actor
He appreciated English beer, taken regularly and moderately, despised drinkers of lager and wrote about an imagined, ideal pub in his 1946 newspaper article " The Moon Under Water ".
Herbert George " H. G ." Wells ( 21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946 ) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre.
* 1946 – Richard Cole, English tour manager
* 1946 – Russell Ash, English author
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