Toronto Star | 30Aug2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/854591--orwell-s-version-more-apt
Orwell’s version more apt
Re: Glenn Beck’s Washington rally big on God, short on colour, Aug. 28,
2010
The fabulously wealthy, ambitious, and unabashed broadcaster Glenn
Beck’s lifting the “faith, hope, and charity” phrase from the Apostle
Paul’s Epistle to the Corinthians in order to rally populist
conservatives recalls George Orwell’s cynical rephrasing of the
scriptural verse in which it appears.
Orwell’s version ends: “And now abideth faith, hope, money, these
three; but the greatest of these is money.”
Considering how, according to rally organizers, Beck’s oration included
an appeal for $10 donations that netted a total of $5.5 million, the
Orwell version might have been more apt.
Orest Slepokura, Strathmore, Alta.