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Profile: Tribute to George Orwell
From: NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
Date: 20030628
Author:SCOTT SIMON
SCOTT SIMON
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
06-28-2003
Profile: Tribute to George Orwell
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM
SCOTT SIMON, host:
This week marked the 100th anniversary of George Orwell's birth. There's one phrase that seems to appear in most of the appreciations that have recently been written about Mr. Orwell: clear-eyed. George Orwell was a socialist who was clear-eyed enough to see Josef Stalin as a despot, not a hero, of the workers' movement. He was a patriotic Englishman who saw British imperialism as clearly a contradiction of Britain's own values of liberty and ...
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