Craig may well be right about Orwell's sentiments; however, Orwell himself 
near the end of his essay offers a set of six "rules" (the word is his).   His 
fourth rule is "Never use the passive where you can use the active."   He 
doesn't say "where you can use the active" but not the passive.   But he uses 
passives in four of the first 15 sentences of "Politics," and it's not at all 
difficult to substitute actives for each them.
Hurrah for Craig's "we need a more functional orientation to language so that 
choice can be built on something more than personal or group prejudice."

Ed Schuster


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