Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the fact we live in the town where it happened, it took TIME to tell us that blows were actually struck-instead of the whitewashed propaganda handed out by the college to the effect it was just a schoolboy fracas over a sweater...
Dancing Taught. When Pearl Harbor came, Gould was in the U.S. The Japanese shanghaied his paper, publishing a Rising Sun house organ under the familiar masthead. To counteract its propaganda effect, Publisher Starr and Editor Gould opened up shop in New York and flew the weekly edition to Free China for distribution. Barely a month after V-J day, Gould was back in his old Shanghai shop feeding the dwindled foreign community the old familiar diet of gossipy chitchat, straight news, Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka and Dorothy Dix. Soon he was squabbling with Nationalist censors. When one killed...
...admits the moral content of a work of art to be a valid basis for criticizing it. There are several schools of theory ensconced in this opinion; one of them centers in Moscow. I do not share this opinion. As long as a work of art is not conscious propaganda, its criticism must be amoral. The criterion should be: is this a sensitive and powerful expression of the artist's feeling? Right, wrong, social value, middle-class morality etc. should never enter into artistic criticism. Granted, artists are deeply concerned with moral issues: their concern should not concern us expect...
...election served clear notice that the Communists could not within the foreseeable future hope to win power anywhere in Germany, except by force. It also indicated that the Soviet propaganda line-that Moscow stands for peace and the West stands for war-had reached the point of sharply diminishing returns. Europe now saw that, after the West had raised its ramparts against Communist expansion, the threat of war had receded...
...Roman Catholic Church and the Czech Communist government were heading for a showdown. Since March, when the church refused to agree to the nationalization of all Catholic schools or to recognize the state's right of veto on church appointments, the Communist propaganda machine has been screaming that the higher clergy and the Vatican are allied with "Anglo-American imperialists and fascists." Last week the new Communist-front Catholic Clergy Gazette unsubtly intimated that some priests could expect a higher income if they would only show "a positive attitude...