Jurupa Middle School - Lord of the Rings Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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Somebody ' s Watching You Big Brother has become a common term for overreaching authority, and Newspeaic is a word we apply to the dehumanizing babble of bureaucracies and computer programs. Those coinages have passed into the language with lives of their own. They are familiar to mil- lions who have never read ' 1984, ' who may not even know it as a novel written thirty-five years ago by an English named Eric Blair, who became famous under the pen name George Orwell. What Orwell had done was not to forsee the future but to see the implications of the present — his present and ours — and he touched a common chord. He had given words and shapes to common but unarticulated fears running deep through all industrial societies. ' 1984 ' is an anguished lament and a warning that we may not be strong enough nor moral enough to cope with the kind of power we have learned to amass. We hear echoes of that warming chord in the constant demand for greater secu- rity and comfort, for less risk in our soci- eties. We recognize, however dimly, that greater efficiency, ease, and security may come at a substantial price in free- dom, that law and order can be a double- think version of oppression, that individ- ual liberties surrendered for whatever good reason are freedoms lost. Still, the warning has been effective; everytime we use one of those catch phrases . . . recognise ' big brother ' in someone, notice something Orwellian ... we are listening to that warning again. ' — by Walter Cronkite - i 1 . Joey Astran contemplates a society that is truly fi ,; like a M984. ' ? , 2. Don Garwood reads from the book ' 1984. 72 COMMUNITY LIFE

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3. Jurupa Junior High stands alone in the midst of the anniversary of George Orwell ' s book. COMMUNITY LIFE 73