During that time his sister's family visited, and Orwell led a disastrous boating expedition which nearly led to loss of life whilst trying to cross the notorious gulf of Corryvreckan and gave him a soaking which was not good for his health.

Orwell was in decline and visited by an assortment of visitors including Muggeridge, Connolly, Lucian Freud, Stephen Spender, Evelyn Waugh, Paul Potts, Anthony Powell and his Eton tutor Anthony Gow.

On the evening of 20 January 1950, Potts visited Orwell and slipped away on finding him asleep.

When Orwell was in the sanatorium in Kent his wife's friend Lydia Jackson visited.

The author George Orwell visited the site on August 21, 1938, as detailed in his domestic diary of that date.

As chair of the ILP Guild of Youth, he visited Barcelona in 1937, where he again met Orwell.

Yet, writing to Jack Common in April 1936 about setting up shop, " Orwell sounds hard put to find £ 20 in order to stock his shelves, rather than like a man who had received £ 500 a couple of months earlier.

Orwell suffered a tubercular haemorrhage in February 1946 but disguised his illness.

Orwell was a member of the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) militia and suffered suppression and escaped arrest by the Comintern faction working within the Republican Government.

It has been suggested that Orwell included elements of Esperanto in the " Newspeak " language he created in his anti-totalitarian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Orwell had been exposed to Esperanto in 1927 when living in Paris with his aunt Nellie Limouzin, who was then living with Eugène Lanti, a prominent Esperantist.

Esperanto was the language of the house, and Orwell, who had come to Paris in part to improve his French, was obliged to find other lodging.

Orwell was a heavy smoker, rolling his own cigarettes from strong shag tobacco, in spite of his bronchial condition.

Orwell states plainly that he himself is in favour of socialism ; but feels it necessary to point out reasons why many people who would benefit from socialism, and should logically support it, are in practice likely to be strong opponents.

With a strong interest in the lives of the working class, Orwell — born in India to a middle-class family, but brought up in Britain — held the post of Assistant Superintendent in the British Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927.

" In the end George Orwell has proved to be a strong marketing tool.

George Orwell was a strong critic of Deeping's, criticising his melodramatic plots.

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.

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.

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 '".

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.

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 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.

Orwell was now working on Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and also tried unsuccessfully to write a serial for the News Chronicle.

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.

Orwell was also able to find a more sympathetic publisher for his views in Frederic Warburg of Secker & Warburg.

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 also submitted his name to the Central Register for war effort but nothing transpired.

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.

In his essay " Politics and the English Language ", George Orwell observes that political language serves to distort and obfuscate reality.

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.

Andrew N. Rubin argues, " Orwell claimed that we should be attentive to how the use of language has limited our capacity for critical thought just as we should be equally concerned with the ways in which dominant modes of thinking have reshaped the very language that we use.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell described a totalitarian government that controlled thought by controlling language, making certain ideas literally unthinkable.

* " Politics and the English Language " ( 1946 ), by George Orwell, criticizing the use of verbose language in contemporary political British writing.

Orwell tried to promote the use of more precise language in political discourse, and he criticised political language popular at the time, such as " running-dog lackey " and " Fascist octopus ", which he said prevented thought.

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.

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George Orwell wrote his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four on the isolated island of Jura, Scotland to describe how a man ( Winston Smith ) attempts to develop critical conscience in a totalitarian state which watches every action of the people and manipulates their thinking with a mixture of propaganda, endless war and thought control through language control ( double think and newsspeak ) to the point where prisoners look up to and even love their torturers.

" Orwell believed that, because this writing was intended to hide the truth rather than express it, the language used was necessarily vague or meaningless.

The insincerity of the writer perpetuates the decline of the language as people ( particularly politicians, Orwell later notes ) attempt to disguise their intentions behind euphemisms and convoluted phrasing.

Orwell makes it clear that he has " not been considering the literary use of language, but merely language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing thought.

Orwell noted the deliberate use of misleading language to hide unpleasant political and military facts and also identified a laxity of language among those he identified as pro-soviet.

Terry Eagleton praised its demystification of political language but later became disenchanted with Orwell.