Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many serious scholars will accept Spanuth's theory without some questions. Most believe that when Plato described Atlantis (in the Dialogues Timaeus and Critias), he was merely writing a political pamphlet about an imaginary state. His contemporaries did not take him literally, but during the Middle Ages Plato gained such enormous authority that his political fantasy was accepted as sober fact. An Atlantis cult grew, and still flourishes. The myth has even multiplied, begetting Mu (sunk in the Pacific) and Lemuria (sunk in the Indian Ocean...
...industry turned out a tidy little packet of advice to anxious-to-please politicians. To help "those in public life to present their views by television convincingly," the National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters issued Campaigning on TV, an 18-page pamphlet studded with admonitory italics ("You will begin your talk with a large audience -your job is to keep that audience") and containing a long list of dos and don'ts. Samples...
...pamphlet briskly urges the candidate, in picking a theme for his initial speech, to choose one "in which you believe." The worst bugaboo of all is competition: "No law compels people to listen to you. You must interest them. If you don't, a flick of the dial will bring them drama, news, comedians, music or"-the saddest fate of all-"another speaker...
...John Masefield, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Rice Burroughs. (The predominance of poets in the list of examples is no accident; 35% of Exposition's output last year was poetry.) Happy customers and favorable reviews are quoted, successful promotions of the firm's books are played up. By pamphlet's end, a writer hungry for the heady sight of print is very apt to start wondering where he can borrow the cash to pay for the first installment...
...years as a parson, Malan drummed home his favorite theme: Africa for the Afrikaners. At 39 he read Marx, and wrote a 30-page pamphlet extolling socialism and praising Marx. For his assault on the Kaffirs he relied on cropped passages from the Old Testament. Example : ". . . Let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water...