Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic candidates for campaign ammunition. The committee's regional traveling men slammed in and out of the office with the latest cardiograms of the public's political heartbeat. Office boys lugged big bundles of outgoing mail; in the past month nearly 400,000 pieces of G.O.P. propaganda have been mailed to all parts of the country. Tickers kept up a sporadic jabber of political news from all over. And filed away was precious provender for 1956's electronic election: $2,000,000 worth of contracts for prime TV time next fall...
...emphasis on individuality (not for its own sake) makes the work of the "abstract expressionists" meaningful-not in any basically different way from jazz, or certain aspects of American business before becoming institutionalized, etc. This vital American painting is not only an answer to greyflannelsuitism, but to art as propaganda (e.g., Russia today and Mexico yesterday). Its seemingly uncommunicative, antisocial, art-for-art's-sake implications are understandable in terms of the failure of so much art for God's and state's sake...
...Communist world, which had not been able to prevent this vast upheaval, at least had a duty to understand it. The triumph was not the victory of the "Uncle Mao" of Peking propaganda, the benign statesman who has charmed such outstanding humanists as Attlee, Nehru and U Nu. It was the triumph of terror...
Manahan might have a point if the CRIMSON were a propaganda monopoly attacking an organization with no means for reply. But this is not the case. Manahan's letter was published, and the only attack the CRIMSON has made against Thomson was on the editorial page. Besides, the HYRC has a newspaper of its own with no mean circulation by which it can set aright the slanders on its martyred president...
...before the Trib squared the trip with its readers. Explained an editorial: "The Tribune's reason [for not staffing Moscow] has been simple. We did not think it worthwhile to subject one of our people to capricious despotism merely to make him a vehicle of Russian propaganda. Now the Russians say that they welcome correspondents and will not interfere with their filing of objective dispatches. We are willing to find out whether they mean it . . .If [Moore] finds that censorship or restrictions on his movements compel him to send doctored news or propaganda, he will come home...