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Orwell's "1984" - coming true. (George Orwell)
From: U.S. News & World Report
Date: 19840102
Author:Trafford, Abigail
Orwell's "1984'-Coming True?
As the new year of 1984 begins, the nightmare scenario of George Orwell's foreboding novel 1984 is far from reality --but war, tyranny and dehumanization still threaten a world that lives in the shadow of nuclear catastrophe.
In Orwell's grim fantasy, the globe by 1984 was supposed to be dominated by three interchangeable superpowers in which the individual was crushed by a government that could control people's thoughts as well as their behavior.
It was a world molded in terror and equipped with two-way telescreens, truth-erasing "memory ...
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