"States for assignment to a new destroyer ... and what happens afterwards. Heggen based his novel on his experiences aboard the cargo ships and , in the South West Pacific theatre of World War II. He had written a number of short stories, which he collected and merged into the novel. It was subsequently adapted as a play circa 1948, a 1955 feature film, a 1965-66 television series, and a live 1984 television movie. Heggen only enjoyed the initial success and profits of his creation, as his life ended in May 1949, by accident or suicide, just after turning 30."
"Thought Police In the novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" (1949), by George Orwell, the Thought Police (""Thinkpol"") are the secret police of the superstate Oceania, who discover and punish ""thoughtcrime"", personal and political thoughts unapproved by the Party. The Thinkpol use criminal psychology and omnipresent surveillance (telescreens, microphones, informers) to search for and find, monitor and arrest all citizens of Oceania who would commit ""thoughtcrime"" in challenge to the ""status quo"" authority of the Party and the regime of Big Brother. George Orwell's concept of ""thought policing"" derived from the intellectual self-honesty shown by a person's ""power of facing unpleasant facts""; thus,"
"to the actual or perceived enforcement of ideological orthodoxy in the political life of a society. Thought Police In the novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" (1949), by George Orwell, the Thought Police (""Thinkpol"") are the secret police of the superstate Oceania, who discover and punish ""thoughtcrime"", personal and political thoughts unapproved by the Party. The Thinkpol use criminal psychology and omnipresent surveillance (telescreens, microphones, informers) to search for and find, monitor and arrest all citizens of Oceania who would commit ""thoughtcrime"" in challenge to the ""status quo"" authority of the Party and the regime of Big Brother. George Orwell's concept of ""thought"
"Thoughtcrime A thoughtcrime is an Orwellian neologism used to describe an illegal thought. The term was popularized in the dystopian novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" by George Orwell, first published in 1949, wherein thoughtcrime is the criminal act of holding unspoken beliefs or doubts that oppose or question Ingsoc, the ruling party. In the book, the government attempts to control not only the speech and actions, but also the thoughts of its subjects. To entertain unacceptable thoughts is known as crimethink (or wrongthink) in Newspeak, the ideologically purified dialect of the party. Crimestop is a way to avoid crimethink by immediately purging"
"Union, Maoist China, and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Works: Thoughtcrime A thoughtcrime is an Orwellian neologism used to describe an illegal thought. The term was popularized in the dystopian novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" by George Orwell, first published in 1949, wherein thoughtcrime is the criminal act of holding unspoken beliefs or doubts that oppose or question Ingsoc, the ruling party. In the book, the government attempts to control not only the speech and actions, but also the thoughts of its subjects. To entertain unacceptable thoughts is known as crimethink (or wrongthink) in Newspeak, the ideologically purified dialect of the party."
"introduced a similar concept in his 1948 novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" using the term thoughtcrime to describe illegal thoughts which held banned opinions about the ruling government or intentions to act against it. A large part of how it differs from pre-crime is in its absolute prohibition of anti-authority ideas and emotions, regardless of the consideration of any physical revolutionary acts. However, Orwell was describing behaviour he saw in governments of his day as well as extrapolating on that behaviour, and so his ideas were themselves rooted in real political history and current events. In Philip K. Dick's 1956 science fiction"
"and let it surface again at the very moment of his execution so that ""the bullet would enter a free mind"" which the Thought Police would not have a chance to tamper with again. Since 1949 (when ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" was published) the word ""doublethink"" has become synonymous with relieving cognitive dissonance by ignoring the contradiction between two world views—or even of deliberately seeking to relieve cognitive dissonance. Some schools of psychotherapy such as cognitive therapy encourage people to alter their own thoughts as a way of treating different psychological maladies (see cognitive distortions). Orwell's ""doublethink"" is also credited with having"
"dangerous thoughts from the mind. The term has been adopted into the English language to describe beliefs contrary to accepted norms and has retrospectively been used to describe some theological concepts such as disbelief or idolatry, or a rejection of strong philosophical or social principles. The Thought Police (""thinkpol"" in Newspeak) are the secret police of the novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"". It is their job to uncover and punish ""thoughtcrime"". The Thought Police use surveillance and psychological monitoring to find and eliminate members of society who challenge the party's authority and ideology. The Thought Police of Orwell and their pursuit of"
"The Thought Gang The Thought Gang is the second novel by English author Tibor Fischer, published in 1994. According to the ""Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide"" (2003) it was 'one of the funniest and most imaginative novels of the last twenty years'. Described by the complete review as 'a metaphysical thriller, combining bank robbery and high philosophy' it tells the unlikely tale of Eddie Coffin, an unemployed, overweight, alcoholic philosophy professor who flees Britain for France where he meets Hubert, a one-armed, one-legged thief. They join forces and embark on a bank-robbing spree through France... Although described by John Updike in"
"a cult novel of the 1990s' and the complete review concludes with 'a very fine novel indeed'. The Thought Gang The Thought Gang is the second novel by English author Tibor Fischer, published in 1994. According to the ""Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide"" (2003) it was 'one of the funniest and most imaginative novels of the last twenty years'. Described by the complete review as 'a metaphysical thriller, combining bank robbery and high philosophy' it tells the unlikely tale of Eddie Coffin, an unemployed, overweight, alcoholic philosophy professor who flees Britain for France where he meets Hubert, a one-armed, one-legged thief."
"in brightly lit rooms for days, torture through the use of their greatest fear, and the victim being shown a mirror after their physical collapse. The random bombing of Airstrip One is based on the Buzz bombs and the V-2 rocket, which struck England at random in 1944–1945. The Thought Police is based on the NKVD, which arrested people for random ""anti-soviet"" remarks. The Thought Crime motif is drawn from Kempeitai, the Japanese wartime secret police, who arrested people for ""unpatriotic"" thoughts. The confessions of the ""Thought Criminals"" Rutherford, Aaronson and Jones are based on the show trials of the"
"state. Among the means for maintaining social control, the Thought Police operate a false flag resistance movement, to lure ideologically disloyal members of the Party to identify themselves for arrest. One such agent of the Thinkpol is O'Brien, a member of the inner Party and an ""agent provocateur"", who identifies himself to Winston Smith as a member of The Brotherhood, the fake opposition to the Party's régime. O’Brien gives Smith a copy of the forbidden book, ""The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism"", authored by the opposition’s leader, Emmanuel Goldstein; yet the factual reality of The Brotherhood in Oceania remains"
"The Philosopher's Stone (novel) The Philosopher's Stone is a 1969 novel by the English writer Colin Wilson. It tells the story of two researchers who find a way to reach a higher state of consciousness, which leads to frightening revelations about humanity's distant history. Like Wilson's 1967 novel ""The Mind Parasites"", ""The Philosopher's Stone"" uses motifs from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Clifford P. Bendau wrote in ""Colin Wilson, the Outsider and Beyond"" from 1979: ""The human striving for an inept management of freedom is, once again, the issue in ""The Philosopher's Stone"". ... Like ""The Mind Parasites"", ""The Philosopher's"
"1949, Joaquim Barrera, whose son Pablo is translating and commenting on his father's trilogy. The structure is therefore a novel within a novel. In the trilogy, there are two main characters, the idealist Ruy Pons de Granollers is described in the light of political goals and pointless sacrifice, and a more down to earth Fleming, Jan Bleis. This is to an extent a metanovel about the philosophy of history from a pessimistic point of view. The third novel, ""A Double Game"" is once again an examination of history and morality, but in the form of a murder mystery. Some of"
"to ""Darkness at Noon"" by Arthur Koestler and ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" by George Orwell. Miłosz has said of the book ""It was considered by anti-communists as suspect because I didn't attack strongly enough the communists. I tried to understand the processes and they didn't like that. And it also created the idea, particularly in the West, that I was a political writer. This was a misunderstanding because my poetry was unknown. I have never been a political writer and I worked hard to destroy this image of myself."" The Captive Mind The Captive Mind () is a 1953 work of nonfiction"
"the criminal attempts to prevent it. The ""Columbo"" TV movie series is the classic example of this kind of detective story ("""" and ""The Streets of San Francisco"" also fit into this genre). This tradition dates back to the inverted detective stories of R Austin Freeman, and reached an apotheosis of sorts in ""Malice Aforethought"" written by Francis Iles (a pseudonym of ""Anthony Berkeley""). In the same vein is Iles's ""Before the Fact"" (1932), which became the Hitchcock movie ""Suspicion"". Successors of the psychological suspense novel include Patricia Highsmith's ""This Sweet Sickness"" (1960), Simon Brett's ""A Shock to the System"""
"amongst them, planting rumors to identify and eliminate any proletarian man or woman who shows intelligence and the capacity for independent thought, which might lead to rebellion against the Party's cultural hegemony. In the early twentieth century, before the publication of ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"", the Empire of Japan (1868–1947), in 1911, established the Special Higher Police (""Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu""), a political police known as the ""Shiso Keisho"", the Thought Police who investigated and controlled native political-groups whose ideologies were considered a threat to the public order of the countries colonised by Japan. In contemporary usage the term ""Thought Police"" often refers"
"The Fourth ""R"" The Fourth ""R"" (also known as The Brain Machine) is a science fiction novel by American writer George O. Smith, first published in 1959. It is a science fictional examination of the genius naïf phenomemon. The plot follows a five-year-old boy named Jimmy Holden, who was given the equivalent of a college education by virtue of his parents' invention, an ""Electromechanical Educator."" The book is not related to the movie ""The Brain Machine"" (1977). The book was first published by Ballantine Books in 1959 as ""The Fourth ""R"""" (#316K), a paperback original. It was reprinted by Lancer"
"Huxley (1932) 57. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (1932) 58. Nineteen Nineteen by John Dos Passos (1932) 59. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934) 60. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938) 61. Murphy by Samuel Beckett (1938) 62. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939) 63. Party Going by Henry Green (1939) 64. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien (1939) 65. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939) 66. Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse (1946) 67. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946) 68. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (1947) 69. The Heat of"
"Interrogation, Indoctrination, and Exploitation of Prisoners of War"", which called brainwashing a ""popular misconception"". The report states ""exhaustive research of several government agencies failed to reveal even one conclusively documented case of 'brainwashing' of an American prisoner of war in Korea."" In George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" the main character is subjected to imprisonment, isolation, and torture in order to conform his thoughts and emotions to the wishes of the rulers of Orwell's fictional future totalitarian society. Orwell's vision influenced Hunter and is still reflected in the popular understanding of the concept of brainwashing. Written about the same"
"Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include ""Brighton Rock"" (1938), ""The Power and the Glory"" (1940), ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1948), ""A Burnt-Out Case"" (1961), and ""The Human Factor"" (1978). Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell whose twelve-volume cycle of novels ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire ""Lucky Jim"" (1954); Nobel Prize"
"The Big Clock The Big Clock is a 1946 novel by Kenneth Fearing. Published by Harcourt Brace, the thriller was his fourth novel, following three for Random House (""The Hospital"", ""Dagger of the Mind"", ""Clark Gifford's Body"") and five collections of his poetry. The story first appeared in abridged form in ""The American Magazine"" (October 1946), as ""The Judas Picture"". The story was adapted for three films, ""The Big Clock"" (1948) starring Ray Milland, ""Police Python 357"" (1976) starring Yves Montand and ""No Way Out"" (1987) starring Kevin Costner. George Stroud works for a New York magazine publisher not unlike"
"defenders previously proposed in ""Homage to Catalonia"" (1938) and ""Animal Farm"" (1945), while ""Coming Up for Air"" (1939) celebrates the personal and political freedoms lost in ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" (1949). Biographer Michael Shelden notes Orwell's Edwardian childhood at Henley-on-Thames as the golden country; being bullied at St Cyprian's School as his empathy with victims; his life in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma and the techniques of violence and censorship in the BBC as capricious authority. Other influences include ""Darkness at Noon"" (1940) and ""The Yogi and the Commissar"" (1945) by Arthur Koestler; ""The Iron Heel ""(1908) by Jack London; ""1920:"
"the novel, Winston Smith, is a rank-and-file Party member. Smith is an outwardly diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. Smith rebels by entering a forbidden relationship with fellow employee Julia. As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction, ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" is a classic novel in content, plot, and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as ""Big Brother"", ""doublethink"", ""thoughtcrime"", ""Newspeak"", ""Room 101"", ""telescreen"", ""2 + 2 = 5"", and ""memory hole"", have entered into common usage since its publication in 1949. ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" popularised the adjective ""Orwellian"", which"
"identified the tactics used by Chinese communists to cause drastic shifts in one's opinions and personality and ""brainwash"" American soldiers into making demonstrably false assertions. The book was first published in 1961 by Norton in New York. The 1989 reprint edition was published by University of North Carolina Press. Lifton is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. In the book, Lifton outlines the ""Eight Criteria for Thought Reform"": ""Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism"" popularized the term ""thought-terminating cliché"". This refers to a cliché that is a"
"American Poets Project. His complete poetic works, edited by Robert M. Ryley, were published by the National Poetry Foundation in 1994. Fearing published several collections of poetry including ""Angel Arms"" (1929), ""Dead Reckoning"" (1938), ""Afternoon of a Pawnbroker and other poems"" (1943), ""Stranger at Coney Island and other poems"" (1948), and seven novels including ""The Big Clock"" (1946). In 1950, he was subpoenaed by the U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C.; when asked if he was a member of the Communist Party, he is supposed to have replied, ""Not yet."" Fearing died in 1961, of malignant melanoma, at Lenox Hill Hospital"
"House Library, and seven of the nine research institutes of the School of Advanced Study. During the Second World War, the building's use by the Ministry of Information inspired two noted English writers. Graham Greene's novel ""The Ministry of Fear"" (1943) and its film adaptation ""Ministry of Fear"" by Fritz Lang (1944) set in Bloomsbury. George Orwell's wife Eileen worked in Senate House for the Censorship Department of the Ministry of Information, and her experiences inspired the description of the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's 1949 novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"". After the First World War the University of London, then based"
"telescreen is constantly watching each citizen. Winston Smith recognises that he has no idea who is behind the technology, watching him or anyone else. Because of this system of surveillance, the Thought Police and the Ministry of Love become universally feared by any member of the Outer Party or any one of the 'Proles' who is capable (or felt by the Party to be capable) of thoughtcrime. ""Crimestop"" means to rid oneself of unwanted thoughts immediately, i.e., thoughts that interfere or disagree with the ideology of the Party. This way, a person avoids committing thoughtcrime. In the novel, we hear"
"The Mind Parasites The Mind Parasites is a science fiction horror novel by English author Colin Wilson. It was published by Arkham House in 1967 in an edition of 3,045 copies. It was Wilson's first and only book published by Arkham House. The book is based on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The novel was published earlier in 1967 by Arthur Barker (London), but with a different introduction. It was then reprinted by Oneiric Press (Berkeley,CA) from 1972–75, initially by Michael Besher (aka Misha PanZobop; Paris, France) and Chellis Glendinning; then by Besher and his brother Alexander Besher. In 1986,"
"the book, inhabitants of an authoritarian future state are made to engage in doublethink, replacing their own conscience and beliefs with those imposed from above. The ""Thought Police"" in the novel coerce self-aware citizens into admitting that two plus two equals five to prove the point that even though two plus two does not logically equal five, logic does not matter when no one else is willing to agree that two plus two equals anything else, under threat of pain or death. The phrase 'hail to the thief', from which the album took its name, appears in this song. It"
"the citizens in line by addictive drugs and pleasurable distractions. In October 1949, after reading ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"", Huxley sent a letter to Orwell and wrote that it would be more efficient for rulers to stay in power by the softer touch by allowing citizens to self-seek pleasure to control them rather than brute force and to allow a false sense of freedom: Elements of both novels can be seen in modern-day societies, with Huxley's vision being more dominant in the West and Orwell's vision more prevalent with dictators in ex-communist countries, as is pointed out in essays that compare the"
"Taylor's mind. The reader is denied information that other major characters obviously have throughout the whole novel, and is meanwhile treated to long passages of theories from the main character. Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., who functioned as an editing publisher, asked for revisions in what he considered a slow-paced novel. Millar cut '10,000 good words' and concentrated the action into four days. The 1985 movie ""Deadly Companion"" (or ""Double Negative"") was based on this novel. The Three Roads The Three Roads is a 1948 mystery novel written by Kenneth Millar. This was Millar's fourth novel, and the final one published"
"thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis. In George Orwell's 1949 novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"", the fictional constructed language Newspeak is designed to entirely eliminate the ability to express unorthodox thoughts. Aldous Huxley’s ""Brave New World"" society uses thought-terminating clichés in a more conventional manner, most notably in regard to the drug ""soma"" as well as modified versions of real-life platitudes, such as ""A doctor a day keeps the jim-jams away"". In her 1963 book"