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Mary McCarthy first coined a term about this author in a review of the fashion magazine Flair.This author parodied a verse from Ecclesiastes to (20[1])compare “insincerity” to a “cuttlefish spurting out ink.” In an essay, this author imagines “some dying hack on a platform” repeating the phrase “stand shoulder to shoulder” and other (*) “dying metaphors” instead of other terms that have “avoidable ugliness.” This author (10[1])advised “never use a long word (10[1])where a short one will do” in his essay “Politics and the English (10[1])Language.” This author created words spoken by Ingsoc (“ing-sosh”) followers like “doubleplusgood” and “thoughtcrime.” For 10 points, what author developed Newspeak for his novel 1984? ■END■

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