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“The man of conscience” – Foreword by Alexander Cockburn in John Reed, Snowball’s Chance (Roof Books, 2002), p. 7.83
“I am a great admirer” – Wynne-Jones.84
“I always disagree” – Orwell letter to Richard Rees, March 3, 1949, CW XX, 3560, p. 52.85
“the use of false information” – Ted Morgan, Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America (Random House, 2004), p. 566.86
“Americanism with its sleeves rolled” – Richard H. Rovere, Senator Joe McCarthy (Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1960), p. 12.87
“the chink in our shining armour” – Richard M. Fried, The McCarthy Era in Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 136.88
“Burnham thinks always” – Orwell, “Burnham’s View of the Contemporary World Struggle”, CW XIX, 3204, p. 105.89
“the existence of a vast” – Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics (Vintage, 2008), p. 14.90
“He abandons Communism intellectually” – Crossman (ed.), pp. 224–225.91
“group-advancement” – Carol Brightman (ed.), Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949–1975 (Secker & Warburg, 1995), p. 5.92
“In five years” – Swingler and Orwell, “The Right to Free Expression”, CW XVIII, 3090, p. 443.93
“In the USA the phrase ‘Americanism’ ” – Orwell’s Statement on Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XX, 3636, p. 134.94
“It is difficult, if not impossible” – Quoted in David M. Oshinsky, A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 187.95
“He knew that big lies” – James Reston, Deadline: A Memoir (Random House, 1991), p. 215.96
“came out of the McCarthy period” – Ibid., p. 219.97
“Don’t join the book-burners” – Quoted in Morgan, p. 447.98
“Whether or not my ideas on censorship” – Quoted in Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: 60th Anniversary Edition (Simon & Schuster, 2012), p. 189.99
“true father, mother, and lunatic brother” – Ibid., p. 167.100
“Whereas twenty years ago” – Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction (Penguin, 2012), pp. 70–71.101
“A Startling View of Life in 1984” – George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Signet Books, 1950).102
“1984 is already on the way out” – Walsh, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 293.103
It has even been claimed– See Rodden, The Politics of Literary Reputation, p. 211.104
“if you engaged in any kind” – Raymond Williams, Politics and Letters: Interviews with New Left Review (Verso, 1981), p. 384.Глава 11
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“It is difficult to imagine” – Stephen Haseler, The Death of British Democracy: A Study of Britain’s Political Present and Future (London: Paul Elek, 1976), p. 221.2
“On my trips through Russia” – Buckley, p. 252.3
“The sad reminders” – Geoff MacCormack, From Station to Station: Travels With Bowie 1973–1976 (Genesis, 2007), p. 93.4
“You see Roy” – Roy Hollingsworth, “Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes: A Journey with Aladdin”, Melody Maker, May 12, 1973.5
“There is a great sense of crisis” – Benn diaries, December 7, 1973, in Against the Tide: Diaries 1973–76 (Hutchinson, 1989), p. 220.6
“because I deeply believed” – Quoted in Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear!: Wilson and the Secret State (London: 4th Estate, 1991), p. 230.7
“a gradual chilling” – Richard Eder, “Battle of Britain 1974”, New York Times, February 24, 1974.8
“A country rent apart” – Patrick Cosgrave, “Could the Army Take Over?”, Spectator, December 22, 1973.9
“I’m an awful pessimist” – Charles Shaar Murray, “Tight Rope Walker at the Circus”, New Musical Express, August 11, 1973.10
“1974: der Countdown für 1984 hat begonnen” – Merkur, vol. 28, no. 10, 1974.11
“It is a shock to realize” – Richard N. Farmer, The Real World of 1984: A Look at the Foreseeable Future (David McKay Co., Inc., 1973), p. vii.12
“Never before in history” – Jerome Tuccille, Who’s Afraid of 1984? (Arlington House, 1975), p. 3.13
“The term Orwellian” – Burgess, 1985, p. 18.14
“the most famous” – Nicholas von Hoffman, “1984: Here Today, Here Tomorrow?”, Washington Post, June 17, 1974.15
“If he had lived” – Mary McCarthy, “The Writing on the Wall”, New York Review of Books, January 30, 1969.16
“if he does not set down his thoughts” – Sonia Orwell, “Unfair to George”, Nova, June/July 1969.17
Even as the ultra-McCarthyite John Birch Society– see Lucas, The Betrayal of Dissent, p. 39.18
“a fink” – Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet (Alison Press, 1984), p. 42.19
“this trash can’t withstand the storms” – Bruce Franklin, “The Teaching of Literature in the Highest Academies of the Empire”, in Louis Kampf and Paul Lauter (eds.), The Politics of Literature: Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English (Pantheon Books, 1972), p. 116.20
“the common man” – Omnibus: George Orwell: The Road to the Left (BBC, 1971).21
“Oh, where will you be” – Spirit, “1984” (Ode Records, 1969).22
“We don’t want no Big Brother scene” – John Lennon, “Only People”, Mind Games (Apple, 1973).23
“If we don’t get our thing together” – Rare Earth, “Hey Big Brother” (Rare Earth, 1971).