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Nineteen eighty-four!(Letter to the editor)

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| July 01, 2006 | Murton, Charles | COPYRIGHT 2006 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SIR: I notice that in the articles "The Madness of University Managerialism" by Malcolm Saunders (March 2006), and "Koestler, Orwell, and the Inversion of Logic" by Marta Feher (May 2006), the two authors, who are university academics, refer to a George Orwell novel, giving the title as 1984.

In fact the title of Orwell's superb satire on Soviet life is Nineteen ...

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