Harrodsburg High School - Harrodian Yearbook (Harrodsburg, KY)

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MX . . . What Next? Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, an agency charged with erasing anything that might embarrass the Party. The Ministry is a vast bureaucracy devoted to disguising brutal and ugly realities in language that lulls and soothes, pretending the horror does not exist. What do we mean when we speak of nuclear deterrence? Certainly we don’t want such weapons for their own sake. We do not desire execssive forces, or what some people have called overkill. Basically, its a matter of others’ knowing that starting a conflict would be more costly to them than anything they might hope to gain. And, yes, it is sadly ironic that in these times it still takes weapons to prevent war. I wish it did not. We desire peace, but peace is a goal, not a policy . . . Our deployed nuclear forces were built before the age of microcircuits. It’s not right to ask our young men and women in uniform to maintain and operate such antiques . . . We must replace and modernize our forces and that is why I’ve decided to proceed with the production and deployment of the new ICBM known as the MX. PRESIDENT REAGAN, TO THE NATION, NOVEMBER 22, 1982. Jabberwocky Newspeak is the official language of Oceania, designed to destroy and ultimately to replace English. The Party can’t tolerate a language rich and diverse enough to allow complexity or ambiguity. Like everything else in Oceania of 1984, Newspeak is rudimentary and mindless, a determined abuse of language rather than a refinement of it. “If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” Simply put, this is the advice that J. Scott Armstrong, a marketing professor at the Wharton School, coolly gives his fellow academics these days. It is based on his studies confirming what he calls the Dr. Fox hypothesis: “An unintelligible communication from a legitimate source in the recipient’s area of expertise will increase the recipient’s rating of the author’s competence.” Eight years ago. Dr. Myron L. Fox gave a celebrated one-hour talk followed by a half-hour discussion period, on “Mathematical Game Theory as Applied to Physical Education.” His audiences were professional groups, including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and educators; afterward, on anonymous questionnaires, they said they found the lecture clear and stimulating. Fox, in short, was a smashing success. He was also a complete phony—a professional actor whom three researchers had told to make up a lecture of double-talk, patching raw material from a Scientific American article into nonsequiturs and contradictory statements interspersed with jokes and meaningless references to unrelated topics. PSYCHOLOGY TODAY, MAY, 1980. 2—Opening

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 OPENING 1-12 SENIORS i3-4o : UNDERCLASSMEN 41-60 ACADEMICS 61-76 SPORTS 77-102 ORGANIZATIONS 103-128 ! STUDENT LIFE 129-138 ADVERTISEMENTS 139-161 INDEX 162-165 CLOSING 166-168

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Lost Justice No one is safe from political persecution in Oceania. Innocent or guilty, educated or ignorant, young or old, everyone is vulnerable. Perhaps the ultimate terror of Big Brother’s reign is that anyone might end up in one of the interrogation cells in the Ministry of Love. No one is safe. At least two million people have been put to death over the last 15 years without due process, according to a United Nations report issued today. Due process includes a fair trial, a right to a lawyer of choice or the right to appeal. Officially inspired executions, ranging from scatted murders to mass purges of political opponents, have been reported in 37 countries, the report to the United Nations Human Rights Commission said. The report, based on information from governments, international organizations and human rights groups, indicated that such killings were almost equally frequent in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. It gave no overall figures for each country. The growing scorn for human life has reached a point where it could become an international problem and countries should act quickly to confront it, the commission’s special reporter, Amos Wako, said. REUTER NEWS STORY. NEW YORK TIMES FEBRUARY 17, 1983. You Are What You Eat The average citizen of Big Brother’s London remembers only dimly the taste of real foods. Victory Gin taste like a drug and assaults the stomach like acid. Victory Coffee, completely synthetic, has no aroma and no taste. Good food, good wine, and real coffee are available only to the privileged Inner Party. SUGAR, HYDROGENATED COCONUT OIL, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, INSTANT COFFEE, TRIPOTASSIUM CITRATE (AIDS DISSOLVING), SODIUM CASEINATE SOLIDS, DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE (AIDS DISSOLVING), NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES (EMULSIFIERS-FOR UNIFORM DISPERSION OF OILS), SILICON DIOXIDE (TO PREVENT CAKING), TRISODIUM CITRATE (AIDS DISSOLVING), LECITHIN, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE (AIDS DISSOLVING) INGREDIENTS LISTED ON LABEL OF GENERAL FOODS’ CAFFE AMARETTO. One Last Hope Deep on the bowels of the Ministry of Love is Room 101, the dreaded chamber where Big Brother’s victims are subjected to the worst torture either they or he can imagine. Room 101 is the place where human aspiration ends; where, in 1984, the power of tyranny over freedom becomes final and absolute, where the last gleam of hope for escape goes out. “In the countryside . . . there were shepherds who lived in the fields and took it in turns to watch their flocks during the night. The angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone round them. They were terrified, but the angel said, “Do not be afraid. Listen, I bring you news of great joy, a joy to be shared by the whole people. Today in the city of David a savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord.” LUKE 2:8-12. Opening—3