Word: depict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spread propaganda which brutal men believe will instill terror in the hearts and minds of women and children can serve no useful purpose to the American way of life. To depict a man in the character of a German hurling insults at our American citizenry could only serve a god of hatred, m contrast to our God of Love. It would tend to stir up strife and resentment, resulting in possible attack upon some innocent American citizens of German descent...
...been-my one aim since the breaking out of the war to accentuate the brutish character of the Germans. The brute is in them and I have tried to bring it out, but try as hard as I can I cannot depict it strong enough. I cannot make my pictures as brutish as the actual truth...
...They call me a psychologist," pro tested Dostoevski. "It is not true. I am merely a realist 'in the higher sense of the word, that is, I depict all the depths of the human soul...
...Other items: Oscar the Obscene Octopus, a rubber monstrosity in Twenty Thousand Legs Under the Sea (formerly Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus}; bigger & better fireworks (free) which depict sinking submarines and battleships, other current news subjects; Battle of Emotions, a spectacle wherein dancing girls test their visual impact on male subjects, whose emotions are scored on electrical lie-detectors (25?); Dancing Campus (all the dancing to name bands that the customers want for 25? apiece); The Op'ry House (beer and mellowdrammer...
...like to bathe best, he sometimes traps victims into saying "Saturday night." Among U. S,, common folk Saturday night is not only bath time but play time. Children, asked when they like best to bathe, are likely to answer "Christmas," or "On my birthday." Obvious application to soap-selling: depict bathing not as a virtuous task but as a frolic...