Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Under a Blanket. Speculation about important shifts in the Kremlin was reinforced last week by the dismissal of at least four top Soviet officials in charge of ideology, propaganda and culture. Most notable was the demotion of Vladimir Stepakov from head of the powerful Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Central Committee to the ambassadorship in Peking...
...know which dog has his teeth in which other dog." Other specialists point out that such clean sweeps of party and government agencies in the post-Stalin era have always taken place after, not before a change in the top leadership. Still others, however, believe that the propaganda officials were punished for failures, most notably for so overselling the Lenin celebrations that they have become a bore to many Russians...
Still, one Western diplomat suggested that if Sihanouk were to turn up at the airport tomorrow, "the guards, instead of arresting him, would probably prostrate themselves before him." To cut Sihanouk down to size, the government began waging an intensive propaganda campaign. The local press, which had previously referred to him as a god-prince, mocked him savagely and his half-Italian wife Princess Monique even more. Some newspapers ran composite photos of her head on anonymous nude bodies in obscene poses. The prince's popularity, however, remained a troublesome factor...
...choice severely limited. Among predominantly black general-audience newspapers, New York's Harlem-based weekly Amsterdam News is the largest, with a circulation of 82,123. The Baltimore, Richmond and Washington, D.C., editions of the Afro-American have a combined circulation of only 97,600. Muhammad Speaks, the propaganda organ of Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslim sect, has a circulation of 400,000. The leading black magazine is the LIFE-like Ebony (circ. 1,216,626), published by John H. Johnson, who also publishes the newsweekly Jet (circ. 394,134) and the polemical journal Negro Digest (circ...
...angry voice threaten him in a language he is not expected to appreciate or understand. The angry voices belong to poetry guerrilla fighters who talk "Black English" and ignore accepted aesthetics. They neglect the usual critical dictums. Most black poets are revolutionaries, or try to be. Sometimes they mouth propaganda, but they are also creating a powerful record of their people's anguish and accompanying rage...