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Did George Orwell name names?(Commentary)(Op-Ed)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19980804
Author:Grenier, Richard

If any of the great ideologues of the Cold War can rest easy in his grave, I should have thought it would be George Orwell. But, lo, here's Orwell again, with a giant, unflattering cartoon, leading the editorial page of the New York Times. And this was followed in a few days by a chorus of heated letters to the editor, of which my favorite - the one the paper chose to lead with - was from Ellen Schrecker, a professor of history at Yeshiva University. "As we reassess American Communism and anti-Communism," she pleads, "can't we admit that both sides were wrong?"

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