Word: agitprop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fellow conservatives, however, find him delightful. Says John Buckley, spokesman for the Republican Congressional Committee: "Gingrich is classic agitprop -- great with devising the arguments to forward our revolution. I see him as one-third Thomas Paine, one-third Winston Churchill and one-third Genghis Khan...
...jowly, beetle-browed apparatchik, Yakovlev hardly seems the type to blossom amid the flash and dynamism of the Gorbachev era. Officials in agitprop (agitation and propaganda), his longtime career, rarely end up in top Kremlin jobs. Trained as a teacher, Yakovlev became a professional party worker following combat duty in World War II. After becoming acting head of the party's propaganda department in 1973, he was on the losing side of an obscure ideological dispute. As punishment, he spent ten years as Ambassador to Canada...
...points for having a heart in the right place. But as they say on Broadway, the road to hell--and an early closing--is paved with good intentions. Public spiritedness is no excuse for bad drama, particularly at $15.00 a throw. What's worse, a constant barrage of unimaginitive agitprop will eventually run afoul of the law of diminishing returns. Americans are already information saturated, and witless repititions of the same pointless message about nuclear war will induce indifference, not involvement...
...Hess, a California architect, takes as his nostalgic prototype a Sunset Boulevard snack shop built in 1949 and zigzags through a hot-rod-and-chili-dog architectural tour that celebrates old McDonald's outlets, car washes and Las Vegas casinos--all the pushy, flimsy '50s buildings that Hess calls "agitprop for the commercial future...
...Gary Hart-esque rail against the gloom-and-doom, tax-and-spend-failed policies of the Carter-Mondale administration? Was it a purely descriptive rather than expository comment, based on the dismal Electoral College performance of the Democrats? Or was Danny 84 actually a member of the party's agitprop crew, out publishing an argument so hopelessly nebulous and unremittingly vulgar that it would actually work to undermine the cause of conservatism in the Bay State...