The left's power of facing.
| Publisher | Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. |
| Publication | Quadrant |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0033-5002 |
| Issues per Year | 10 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Published | 2003-09-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Beliefs, opinions and attitudes | Martin Amis |
| Person | Works | Martin Amis |
| Person | Beliefs, opinions and attitudes | Christopher Hitchens |
| Person | Works | Christopher Hitchens |
| Author | n/a | Richard King |
| Person | Beliefs, opinions and attitudes | George Orwell |
| Person | Portrayals | George Orwell |
| Person | Works | George Orwell |
| Person | Portrayals | Joseph Stalin |
IN "WHY I WRITE", published in 1946, George Orwell wrote of his early youth: I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts." In Orwell's Victory, Iris recent book on Orwell, Christopher Hitchens pauses to reflect on this rather unusual use of words:
Not the ability to face them, you notice, but "a power of facing". It's oddly well put. A commissar who realises that his five-year plan is off-target and that the people detest him or laugh at him maybe said, in a base manner, to be confronting an unpleasant fact. So, for...
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