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Title: Last Call
Author: Daniel Okrent
Sentence: But the stage for this final act of dry dramaturgy had been prepared by journalist George Creel, whom Wilson had placed at the head of a malignant propaganda body officially called the Committee of Public Information but known to critics as the "House of Truth."
Page: 100

Word: dramaturgy
Definition:
  • The art of the theater, especially the writing of plays.
   Source: The Free Dictionary

Foreshadowing Orwell’s 1984, Creel said “People do not live by bread alone; they live mostly by slogans.”


Title: 1984
Author: George Orwell
Page: 168
The heirs of the French, English, and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of man, freedom of speech, equality before the law, and the like and had even allowed their conduct to be influenced by them to some extent. But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian.

“fourth decade of the twentieth century” – This book was written in the fourth decade of the twentieth century….


Title: 1984
Author: George Orwell
Sentence: The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another.
Page: 164

Word: imposture
Definition:
  • the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
  • deception using an assumed character, identity, or name, as by an impostor.
  • an instance or piece of fraudulent imposition.
   Source: Dictionary.com


Title: 1984
Author: George Orwell
Sentence: The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense.
Page: 162

Word: execrate
Definition:
  • to call down evil upon; curse
  • to speak abusively or contemptuously of; denounce scathingly
  • to loathe; detest; abhor
   Source: YourDictionary.com

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