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Keywords: Orwell

ARTS AND CULTURE

Unlikely (big) brothers in arms
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 19 September 2008
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George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh occupied opposing aesthetic, philosophical and political poles. This conceptually agile book suggests they attained moral — if not spiritual — agreement from fundamentally opposing directions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

2007 the year for final decisions
- Tony Smith
- 02 April 2007
In 2001, science broadcaster Robyn Williams wrote a novel inspired by Orwell's 1984, but set in 2007. It suggests that change is occurring with exponential speed, and that our opportunities for altering course are dwindling numerically, shrinking in size and diluting in quality.
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AUSTRALIA

Unﬁnished business
- Morag Fraser
- 03 July 2006
It’s a cliché, and that in itself should make you suspicious. In George Orwell’s centenary year, doubly so.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Wintry conscience
- Edmund Campion
- 01 July 2006
George Orwell’s take on language has an increasing contemporary relevance
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Powerful lives
- Hugh Dillon
- 12 June 2006
Hugh Dillon on Simone Weil and George Orwell
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Book reviews
- Emily Millane, Beth Doherty, Chloe Wilson and Godfrey Moase
- 07 June 2006
Orwell’s Australia: From Cold War to Culture Wars | A Woman of Independence | The Man Who Knew Too Much
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ARTS AND CULTURE

George Orwell's homage to a fellow underdog
- Brian Matthews
- 29 May 2006
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Almost exactly 60 years ago George Orwell published a wonderful essay called, Some Thoughts on the Common Toad... The point of the essay was to insist ‘that the pleasures of spring are available to everybody, and cost nothing’.
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