Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western press failed to pick up this story because Indonesia is a Western satellite, and the press has been willing to accept the hand-outs of the Indonesian propaganda ministry, Chomsky said...
...Querulous and selfabsorbed, the lovers are made to suffer the mutual incomprehension of male chauvinists and radical feminists. "Being a woman," the author says of Guinevere, "she could not understand honor and justice, for they were invented by men." The code of chivalry is resurrected in the form of propaganda. Berger is given to writing didactic speeches, and his digressions about good and evil, appropriate for the allegorical literature of the Middle Ages, seem tedious in a contemporary novel...
Carter blamed defeat of labor law revision this year on "a massive, expensive, distorted propaganda effort. I personally helped draft every single paragraph of the labor law bill," Carter said, denying charges that it had been "a grab for power by the unions...
...mess. It would open the U.S. further to charges of racism and hypocrisy; every time a black man was executed in Alabama, the Soviets would feel further justified-by whatever false comparisons-in the conduct of their own Gulags. Not that they need such justification. More important than this propaganda effect would be the domestic divisions and bitterness in the U.S. The death penalty would be ethically shaming and emotionally exhausting. In the end, only a few criminals would be removed (permanently) from circulation. Blood vengeance is not what it is cracked up to be. Much better to concentrate...
...agitprop theater, the theater of propaganda and persuasion, Every Good Boy is a conspicuous success. By other dramatic standards, however, it is less satisfactory. Stoppard has always depended on gimmicks, but in his best work, like Travesties (1975), he has used them as a starting point to develop characters and situations. In Every Good Boy the gimmick has taken over, and the play ends where it began, with a brilliant conceit waiting to be developed...