Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another grape picker, Shirley Fetalvero, testified before a California Senate fact-finding committee. "The union's massive propaganda machine has led the public to believe that there are thousands of desperate, ragged, starving farmworkers on strike here. This is not true. The picket lines are being manned by outside organizations such as the SDS. We resent the invention of an ignorant, downtrodden class of farmworkers where none exists...
...main propaganda theme of the anniversary was the need for unity-understandable in light of the uncertainties facing China. Chairman Mao did not show up for any of the proceedings, feeding speculation that the 81-year-old leader was too frail to withstand the strains of a public appearance...
...recognize the grievances of OSTWS as valid, although we doubt that "Birth of a Nation" is such potent propaganda that it would foment race prejudice among college students or that a majority of the students attending our meeting came to cheer on the white oppressor. OSTWS should remember that in addition to "Birth of a Nation" we announced a screening of "The Great Train Robbery." Both are very early silent American films. Each in its way is a landmark in the development of film-making; each represents prodigious advances in film technology, direction and cinematography. The subjects...
...thinking of showing the two of them and discussing how film can be used as propaganda," he said. But Bozer said the film society's plans were "very tentative at the moment...
Although Born Yesterday gets a little carried away with its good intentions, it remains a thoroughly entertaining piece of propaganda for truth, justice and the American way. Kanin's analytical abilities leave something to be desired. His conclusion that the excesses of the free enterprise system could be avoided if each American did his or her duty as a citizen is, to say the least, simplistic. And it should be noted that his "liberated" woman makes her exit on the arm of a paternalistic and protective male, who says he loves her for her mind but neglects to mention that...