Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edward Hopper had sent along a harshly lit Conference at Night that was rock-solid in composition and rock-bare in theme. It made a notable addition to Hopper's hard comments on the loneliness and scantiness of a lot of city life-paintings that bite deeper than propaganda pictures of the "social-consciousness" school ever could. By contrast, Grandma Moses' glowing, not very "primitive" Out for the Christmas Trees and Louis Bouche's slapdash evocation of the New Lebanon Railroad Station, though just as true to American life, were as warm and easy to take...
...PROPAGANDA The Hair...
Poultry Week. The symbol for the build-up was Communist Artist Pablo Picasso's "Dove of Peace." Everywhere in the Soviet sector, on handbills, stickers and banners, the benign bird cooed Communist "pacifism." Berliners only sneered at the "Trojanische Taube" (Trojan dove); they dubbed each propaganda flurry as "Geflűgel Woche" (Poultry Week...
...office that the public is interested in movies that give serious treatment to a serious theme, e.g., the sorry plight of the U.S. Negro. Partly because it puts entertainment above soap-boxing, Darryl Zanuck's sleek movie is head & shoulders above its predecessors both as entertainment and propaganda...
...daring to suggest that some Negroes may be villains-and some white Southerners decent men-Pinky will annoy those who insist on their propaganda with easy good & evil labels. Anyone who is determined to look for the cliches of antidiscrimination propaganda might charge that the sour-sweet old plantation owner (Ethel Barrymore) is a "symbol" of white paternalism and the Ethel Waters role a "symbol" of Aunt Jemimaism. But Pinky is the most skillful type of propaganda: in avoiding crude and conventional labeling, it leaves a strong impression that racial discrimination is not only unreasonable but evil...