George. In 1974, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. published (in The American Scholar, 43 [Autumn, 1974], 553-562), an essay, Politics and the American Language, which began with this sentence: takes a certain fortitude to pretend to amend Orwell on this subject. Schlesinger, too, is a good guy (solid credentials: satteth at the right hand of JFK, etc.) and a good writer (urbane, informed, insightful, scholarly, prolific, etc.) who does say some interesting things in his essay about the language in the Vietnam and Watergate era. But because he's offering an amendment to update Orwell, perhaps he has missed some of the implications in the premises and assumptions of the original essay. It probably wouldn't bother the world too much, except that I do have the feeling that the Orwell and Schlesinger essays are going to be reprinted in future textbooks as a matched set to be read