Nineteen Eighty-Four and opera. The effect of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" on the English language is extensive; the concepts of Big Brother, Room 101, the Thought Police, thoughtcrime, unperson, memory hole (oblivion), doublethink (simultaneously holding and believing contradictory beliefs) and Newspeak (ideological language) have become common phrases for denoting totalitarian authority. Doublespeak and groupthink are both deliberate elaborations of "doublethink", and the adjective "Orwellian" means similar to Orwell's writings, especially "Nineteen Eighty-Four". The practice of ending words with (such as "mediaspeak") is drawn from the novel. Orwell is perpetually associated with 1984; in July 1984, an asteroid was discovered by Antonín Mrkos and named
Nineteen Eighty Seven Nineteen Eighty Seven Nineteen Eighty Seven was released in 2005 on Girder Records and is an album from the Christian metal band Whitecross. The album is the band's comeback album since they elected to disband in 1998. This album also has Scott Wenzel and Rex Carroll together again for the first time since 1992. It is a remake of the original 1987 Whitecross debut album from scratch since the band felt that the original album turned out being a little too raw due to its limited budget & to now take full advantage of advances in studio technology not available