13 “The term Orwellian” – Burgess, 1985, p. 18.
14 “the most famous” – Nicholas von Hoffman, “1984: Here Today, Here Tomorrow?”, Washington Post, June 17, 1974.
15 “If he had lived” – Mary McCarthy, “The Writing on the Wall”, New York Review of Books, January 30, 1969.
16 “if he does not set down his thoughts” – Sonia Orwell, “Unfair to George”, Nova, June/July 1969.
17 Even as the ultra-McCarthyite John Birch Society– see Lucas, The Betrayal of Dissent, p. 39.
18 “a fink” – Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet (Alison Press, 1984), p. 42.
19 “this trash can’t withstand the storms” – Bruce Franklin, “The Teaching of Literature in the Highest Academies of the Empire”, in Louis Kampf and Paul Lauter (eds.), The Politics of Literature: Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English (Pantheon Books, 1972), p. 116.
20 “the common man” – Omnibus: George Orwell: The Road to the Left (BBC, 1971).
21 “Oh, where will you be” – Spirit, “1984” (Ode Records, 1969).
22 “We don’t want no Big Brother scene” – John Lennon, “Only People”, Mind Games (Apple, 1973).
23 “If we don’t get our thing together” – Rare Earth, “Hey Big Brother” (Rare Earth, 1971).
24 one of Lee Harvey Oswald’s favourite books– See The Official Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964).
25 “it was almost impossible” – The Prisoner File (Channel 4, 1984).
26 “the way we’re being made into ciphers” – Warner Troyer interviews Patrick McGoohan for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.
27 “the holiday camp, the doodle-bug” – Orwell, Review of The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus, Observer, January 14, 1945, CW XVII, 2604, p. 21.
28 “Questions Are a Burden to Others” etc. – The Prisoner (ITV, 1967–1968).
29 “You still have a choice!” – The Prisoner, “A Change of Mind.”
30 “If you insist on living a dream” – The Prisoner, “Dance of the Dead.”
31 “Number Two: It doesn’t matter which side runs the Village” – The Prisoner, “The Chimes of Big Ben.”
32 “usefully divert the violence of youth” etc. – Privilege (dir. Peter Watkins, 1967).