O’Brien (Richard Burton) demonstrates that 2 + 2 doesn’t always equal 4.
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Did the international crises of 1947 and 1948 leave their mark on the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four? I’ve spent a lot of time on this question, and so far as I can tell, the answer is – yes; but only obliquely. And George Orwell may not even have been conscious of the fact.
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Connolly, Burnham, Orwell, & “Corner Table”
“In the torture scenes, he is merely melodramatic: he introduces those rather grotesque machines which used to appear in terror stories for boys.”
—V. S. Pritchett, The New Statesman, June 18, 1949
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Charlese Lindholma a José Pedro Zúquetea
The Struggle for the World: Liberation Movements for the 21st Century
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010
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Charles Lindholm and José Pedro Zúquete
The Struggle for the World:
Liberation Movements for the 21st Century
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010
The single greatest force shaping our age is unquestionably that of globalization.
