Word: counteractivity
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...Voice of America? Can we hope for a split in Russia between the military and political leaders? Why does the U.S. continue to spend money abroad? Are people behind the Iron Curtain mature enough to select their own governments if liberated? Is the Schuman Plan an effective means to counteract Soviet aggression in Europe? Why do we not let the Russians have Berlin...
What the West Is Doing. The U.S. and Britain are making some feeble efforts to counteract Russian propaganda. Mobile film units show newsreels and Walt Disney films on how to stay healthy by not drinking dirty water. Britain has a couple of Kurdish-speaking consuls who are running themselves ragged. The U.S. prints a small weekly magazine in Kurdish which few people read. Its question & answer section ("Who invented penicillin?", "What is television?") draws about 30 letters a week...
...sentiment is Clifton Webb, the original Pa Gilbreth, who passed on in Cheaper by the Dozen. In Belles, Webb is seen only in a brief flashback from the earlier film. Unfortunately, he and his acid personality could not be around for the rest of the movie to help counteract the saccharin goings...
There is only one way to counteract the excessive power of pressure groups, and that is by defending the right to see a film as insistently as the minority opposes it. The majority, must swamp producers and local censors, for so long as all the pressure on them comes from one direction; they will always lean the same way. If there are going to be more pictures with the artistry and originality of Birth of a Nation, American moviegoers will have to be more articulate than they...
...purpose of this action in part is to counteract the adverse publicity that this incident has brought the College, Levine said...