Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your pious attempt to glamorize nunnery was one of the most nauseating pieces of propaganda I've yet seen in TIME. . . . New York City is 47.6% Roman Catholic. Why don't you move your editorial offices away from the influences of the big city...
...more than a thousand of them deserted the Communist cause and switched their votes to give the anti-Communist C.I.S.L. a majority. After the Fiat defeat, the Communists blamed their troubles on U.S. withholding of offshore procurement orders. Last week, defeated again, they were silent. "I wonder what the propaganda boys will now invent to explain away and justify this new clamorous defeat." crowed C.I.S.L. General Secretary Giulio Pastore...
President Batista's "forgive and forget" law will allow some 335 exiles and fugitives to return home, will set free 65 oppositionists jailed for such crimes as armed rebellion, terrorism, gunrunning, insulting government officials and distributing propaganda. Specifically excluded from the pardon: Cuba's Communists...
...disguised under elaborate names (e.g., "The Chinese Middle School Students Anti-British Association for Independence"), have been gradually taking over the schools. Their leaders are a hard core of overage youth, many of whom purposely flunk examinations in order to stay in school longer. They secretly distribute anti-British propaganda, have directed a series of petitions and strikes against the proposed British school subsidy and the British draft law requiring a few extra hours of training for reserves. They have gradually become a major political force in the city...
Especially in folk music an artist must be judged on the merits of his performance. In your editorial you stated that "Seeger himself, during his performance, noted that his were 'propaganda songs'." Rather, Seeger emphasized the anyone can write folk songs, but the songs that last must have something to say (his concert included a Polynesian wedding song, some South African work songs, and an American union song). He spoke of his trips around the country, noting that every different racial and cultural group has "something to say." If an acquaintance with customs and beliefs of the people of American...