NP: Another meaning for "Orwellian"

[Steve Maas]

Some of you may be interested in this--oddly enough, from the LA Times 
rather than the SF Chron.
Steve Maas

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City Lights Illuminates the Past

For 50 years, the bookstore of the Beats has been at the heart of San 
Francisco's literary life. Its founder hopes to ensure it survives him.

By Shawn Hubler, Times Staff Writer, May 27, 2003

[excerpt]

"About two years ago, I'm standing on Broadway and Columbus across from City 
Lights, and I look at the store, the whole fandango, the whole facade, and 
my heart went to my feet," said Neeli Cherkovski, a poet and the author of a 
1979 Ferlinghetti biography. "I thought of all the Starbucks and Gaps and 
all the flattening out of sensibility and all the Orwellian kind of oneness. 
And I thought, 'It's so beautiful. And yet how fragile it is.' "

http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Det%2Dcitylights27may27234427&section=/printstory

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