NN Centenary of George Orwell's Birth Celebrated

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Centenary of George Orwell's Birth Celebrated
A Seer's Blind Spots
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28471-2003Jun24.html
Blacklisted Writer Says Illness Clouded Orwell's
Judgement
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,983764,00.html
Gates Says Big Brother Not Necessarily Bad
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030626.gtgatesjune26/BNStory/Technology/
BBC: Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell [RealOne
Player]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/talkshow/features/orwell.shtml
George Orwell, 1903-1950
http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/
George Orwell: Voice of A Long Generation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/art/orwell_01.shtml

This past Wednesday, many persons and groups around
the world paid homage to
George Orwell, the author who wrote such important
works as "1984" and
"Animal Farm." Born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903
in Bengal, Orwell
(his pen name) was educated at Eton, and spent part of
his youth in Burma.
Orwell was best known for his distrust of
authoritarianism and, though he
had published several novels, leapt into the public
eye with his 1945 work,
"Animal Farm." The work was a satire of Stalinist
communism, and contained
such trenchant commentaries on its inherent paradoxes
as: "All animals are
equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
While Orwell's literary
notoriety and merit remains largely secure today, his
devotion to the causes
he espoused came under question when it was revealed
that he turned over a
list of "crypto-communists and fellow travelers" to a
British Foreign Office
propaganda unit in 1949.

The first link leads to a recent piece about the
legacy and life of Orwell,
written by Glenn Frankel of the Washington Post's
Foreign Service office.
The second link will take visitors to a story from the
_Guardian_ in which
one of the supposed "crypto-communists" named by
Orwell discusses the
reasons Orwell may have created such a list. The third
link leads to an
online Globe and Mail article that talks about a
speech given by Bill Gates
recently where he notes that technology can "prevent
the nightmare vision of
George Orwell" from becoming a reality. The fourth
link will take visitors
to several video clips (and a printed transcript) in
which Andrew Marr of
the BBC interviews Christopher Hitchens (author of
"Orwell's Victory") about
what Orwell might think about the world today. The
fifth link leads to a
site that offers a number of sections devoted to the
writings and musings of
Orwell, including his famous essay, "A Nice Cup of
Tea." The final link
leads to a biographical essay about Orwell written by
Sir Bernard Crick.


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