[Peace-discuss] Intimidation at Columbia University

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Another take on the Orwell quote, for a perhaps unlikely source, an 
ex-president of universities, in the NYTimes letters. --CGE]

<blockquote>To the Editor:

More than half a century ago, George Orwell warned, in his essay 
"Politics and the English Language," against the immorality implicit 
in the use, especially by government officials, of intentionally 
misleading words. I think of Orwell's essay every time that President 
Bush speaks of the need for "reform" of Social Security and tort law.

Orwell's contemporary George Bernard Shaw got it right when he 
reputedly retorted to an adversary whom he was debating: "Do not 
speak to me, sir, of reform. Things are bad enough as they are!"

JAMES O. FREEDMAN
Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 24, 2005

The writer is president emeritus of Dartmouth College and the 
University of Iowa.</blockquote>


On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, David Green wrote:

> ZNet | Israel/Palestine
>  
> Racists Feel “Intimidated”
> Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing at Columbia
>  
> by M. Junaid Alam; March 06, 2005  
> 
> Political language
is designed to make lies sound
> truthful and murder respectable, and to give an
> appearance of solidity to pure wind. -Orwell
> 	...