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Why Orwell urged his readers to celebrate the spring, cynics be damned
Is it wicked to take a pleasure in spring?’ George Orwell’s postwar ode to the toad offers a message ripe for our times ...
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The Dystopia We Get May Not Be the One We Dreamed Of
On February 13, the New York Times published “Orwell’s 1984 or Huxley’s Brave New World?” Truthdig published a similar article on the same day. Canada’s CBC felt the mood eight days late ...
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Two more tornadoes confirmed in New York: See where they hit
The tornado struck near the town of Orwell, causing a short path of broken ... There have now been 22 tornadoes in New York this month, shattering the previous record of 13 set in 1992.