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Mr. Philip Toynbee affirms at one point that if he shared the anticipations of Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, if he believed Communism was not only evil but `` also irredeemably evil '', then he might `` think it right to do anything rather than to take the risk of a communist world.
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.
Orwell also uses the technique of false document in an appendix to the same novel, titled " The Principles of Newspeak ," where Orwell offers a linguistic guide to Oceania's official language, Newspeak from the perspective of the country's ruling party, along with policy prescriptions for how the language may develop in the future.
'" Orwell wrote later that he felt guilty about his role in the work of empire and he " began to look more closely at his own country and saw that England also had its oppressed ..." Orwell made changes to his appearance in Burma that remained for the rest of his life.
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
Orwell was now working on Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and also tried unsuccessfully to write a serial for the News Chronicle.
Orwell was also able to find a more sympathetic publisher for his views in Frederic Warburg of Secker & Warburg.
For the next four years Orwell mixed journalistic work – mainly for Tribune, The Observer and the Manchester Evening News, though he also contributed to many small-circulation political and literary magazines – with writing his best-known work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was published in 1949.
Orwell liked to provoke argument by challenging the status quo, but he was also a traditionalist with a love of old English values.
However, Orwell pointed out that its proprietor François Coty also owned the right-wing dailies Le Figaro and Le Gaulois, which the Ami de Peuple was supposedly competing against.
Additionally his film work includes the role of Dr. Hank McCoy ( also known as the Beast ) in X-Men: The Last Stand, and he was the voice of Snowball in the live-action film adaptation of the George Orwell book Animal Farm.
Blake's 7 also drew inspiration from the classic British dystopian novels Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.
Apart from obvious political considerations that saw works such as those of George Orwell being banned, access to foreign art and literature was also restricted on aesthetic grounds.
In the 1920s and 1930s, he also edited the periodicals Monde and Progrès Civique, which published some of the first writings of George Orwell.
There has also been a great deal of discourse on the possibility that Orwell galvanized his ideas of oppression during his experience, and his subsequent writings in the English press, in Spain.
In his essay " Politics and the English Language ", Orwell derided the use of cliché and dying metaphors, which " even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent " and went on to say " But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
She also appeared in a television special produced by Nam June Paik broadcast on New Years Day 1984, entitled Good Morning Mr. Orwell ( the title being inspired by Orwell's novel 1984 ).
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He also mentions that " a traveller will hardly understand me, especially a seaman, when I speak of the River Stour and the River Orwell at Harwich, for they know them by no other names than those of Maningtre-Water, and Ipswich-Water ".
There are also four non en-suite residences on campus, namely Norfolk and Suffolk Terraces also known as the " Ziggurats ", and Orwell and Wolfson Close.

Orwell and submitted
Orwell submitted the typescript of Keep the Aspidistra Flying to Gollancz on 15 January 1936.

Orwell and name
As a child Orwell ( under his real name Eric Blair ) published poems praising Kitchener and war recruitment in his local newspaper.
Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 ), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist.
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.
John Rodden points out the " undeniable conservative features in the Orwell physiognomy " and remarks on how " to some extent Orwell facilitated the kinds of uses and abuses by the Right that his name has been put to.
" Orwell did not wish to publish under his own name Eric Blair, and Orwell was the name he used from then on for his main works — although many periodical articles were still published under the name Eric Blair.
Famous writers with a pen name include Voltaire, Molière, George Sand, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Dr. Seuss, and Lemony Snicket.
Priestley's name was on Orwell's list, a list of people which George Orwell prepared in March 1949 for the Information Research Department, a propaganda unit set up at the Foreign Office by the Labour government.
On the communist role in Spain, Hobsbawm writes simply that " its pros and cons continue to be discussed in the political and historical literature ", and refers to Orwell, not by his literary name, but as " an upper-class Englishman called Eric Blair ".
In the broadcast radio interview of 1943 Orwell elaborated on the name Wigan Pier: " Wigan is in the middle of the mining areas.
In the name Orwell, Or-comes from an ancient river-name — probably pre-Celtic ; but-well probably indicates an Anglo-Saxon naming.
The writer Eric Blair chose the pen name under which he would later become famous, " George Orwell ", because of his love for the river.
The River Gipping is the source river for the River Orwell in the county of Suffolk in East Anglia, England, which gave its name to the former Gipping Rural District and the village of Gipping.
Deutscher's name ( with the remark " Sympathiser only ") subsequently appeared on Orwell's list, a list of people ( many writers and journalists ) which George Orwell prepared in March 1949 for the Information Research Department, a propaganda unit set up at the Foreign Office by the Labour government.
Better know by pen name George Orwell.
Sonia Mary Brownell ( 25 August 1918 – 11 December 1980 ) was the second and last wife of writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair.
Although in later life Brownell often went by the name Sonia Orwell, this was never legally her name as ' Orwell ' was merely a pen name that her husband ( real name Eric Arthur Blair ) had chosen.

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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.
In the essay section of his novel 1985, Anthony Burgess states that Orwell got the idea for Big Brother from advertising billboards for educational correspondence courses from a company called Bennett's, current during World War II.
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.
With Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell taps into the anti-communist fears that would continue to haunt so many in the West for decades to come.
David Janssen ( March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980 ) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive ( 1963 – 1967 ), the starring role in the 1950s hit detective series Richard Diamond, Private Detective ( 1957 – 60 ), and as Harry Orwell on Harry O.
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 '".
A colleague, Roger Beadon, recalled ( in a 1969 recording for the BBC ) that Orwell was fast to learn the language and that before he left Burma, " was able to speak fluently with Burmese priests in ' very high-flown Burmese.
Orwell set out for Spain on about 23 December 1936, dining with Henry Miller in Paris on the way.
In the first week of July 1937 Orwell arrived back at Wallington ; on 13 July 1937 a deposition was presented to the Tribunal for Espionage & High Treason, Valencia, charging the Orwells with ' rabid Trotskyism ', and being agents of the POUM.
In the latter part of his stay at the clinic Orwell was able to go for walks in the countryside and study nature.
Myers secretly funded a trip to French Morocco for half a year for Orwell to avoid the English winter and recover his health.
They rented a villa on the road to Casablanca and during that time Orwell wrote Coming Up for Air.
Orwell was declared " unfit for any kind of military service " by the Medical Board in June, but soon afterwards found an opportunity to become involved in war activities by joining the Home Guard.

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