Word: agitprop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thuy's work as an agitprop handyman that brought him into Ho's orbit. In 1950 Thuy was sent abroad, and he is a widely traveled rarity among North Vietnamese officials. Fluent in French and Chinese, he has touted Hanoi's line in Vienna, Stockholm and Rangoon, as well as Peking, Moscow and other Communist capitals, where he has generally appeared in the guise of a journalistic commissar. The softspoken, stumpy Thuy, whose name means spring water, emulates stay-at-home apparatchiki in one respect: his private life is shadowed in secrecy. Thuy is known to have...
...taking a good swipe at every available special interest group, MacBird avoids agitprop and falls somewhat heavily into the category of the Interesting. All hysterical remarks about the play's political truth aside, the best that can be said for it is that it provides a vaguely satisfying hour's reading; the worst, that it leaves the reader with a swelling sense of self-satisfaction. After...
Most Communist governments seemingly dusted off the rote anticapitalist, anti-imperialist tirade from the agitprop manual. Indeed, their response was probably the most realistic of all, for they had plainly long accepted the inevitability of U.S. raids on such inviting targets. One Moscow commentator noted that Soviet policymakers had regarded them as "imminent for some time." Peking, preoccupied with its internal "purification" purge, unstoppered the prescription brimstone but pointedly refrained from any specific threat to enter the war or increase its assistance to Hanoi. As for Hanoi, its reaction had a certain surrealistic quality, with broadcasts about "a big victory...
...same, the musty Old Left slogans festooning the hall in classic agitprop type attested to the fact that there has been little dialectical ecumenism among the faithful in recent years...
...again felt the cold wind of literary conservatism. This time it blew not on a politically outspoken, widely published writer, but rather on one of Russia's many literary "abstainers" - ostensible amateurs whose works are circulated by hand, thus precluding their being drafted into the government's agitprop machinery, as Evtushenko and others occasionally have been...