"Ultraviolence" Antedating?
Paul Frank
paulfrank at POST.HARVARD.EDU
Sat Sep 10 17:52:12 UTC 2005
> Here's a seemingly odd first use in the OED: The first use there for
> "ultraviolence" is dated 1972. But isn't that word used prominently in a
> major novel, A Clockwork Orange (1962)?
>
> Fred Shapiro
Nikita Khrushchev used the term (in a different context) before Anthony
Burgess:
"To hear them, it appears that the dictatorship of the proletariat is
ultra-violence, suppression of all and every freedom, oppression of the
individual."
For Victory in Peaceful Competition with Capitalism, Nikita S.
Khrushchev, Dutton, 1960, p. 715.
I wonder what Khrushchev wrote in Russian.
Paul
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