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Was George Orwell a snob?
From: New Straits Times
Date: 20020130
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New Straits Times
01-30-2002
Was George Orwell a snob?
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: Literary
AN article that Charles Morgan wrote (under the pseudonym "Menander") produced a robust letter from George Orwell. Answering a point raised by Menander, Orwell defended his dislike of the word "loveliness". He claimed that certain words, if not inherently ugly, could be "vulgarised by association, and I object to a world like `loveliness' because in our age it inevitably calls up a picture of pink sunsets, Dorothy Lamour, soft- centre chocolates, etc."
This led to an amusing exchange of ...
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