Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Nations usually junks its most important work under reams of verbiage, making constructive action almost impossible. For with each nation measuring all proposals with its own political yardstick, agreement has run second best to propaganda. Unlike the Security Council, however, the smaller, more specialized United Nations commissions have turned out solid achievement through negotiation. Among such groups is the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, which, because of the non-political nature of its delegates, has reached broad agreement on many projects. Typical of its accomplishments is the new European Organization for Nuclear Research, to be completed next...
According to Bicks, a topic like this would show Europeans that education in America is not--as some Soviet propaganda has claimed--a privilege for the capitalistic rich alone...
Refusing the Cypriots even the gesture of a diplomatic conference, the British clamped the nationalist movement under the pressure of anti-sedition laws. But the unrest remains, bolstered by a continuing barrage of propaganda from the Athens radio. While the British fear the loss of defensive bases, the Greeks dream of the day when Cyprus will be free to unite with them. British consuls have justified the tight controls by firing a torrent of singularly weak arguments at the agitators. It is suggested, for example, that a split with Britain might leave the Greek and Turkish forces in Cyprus...
...Japan's moviemakers have made their comeback from the bottom. In the militaristic '30s, the Home Ministry's thought police haunted Japan's moviehouses armed with tape measures. They had the power to stop any showing, measure the films to make sure that no militaristic propaganda had been clipped from them. During World War II, the only films produced were propaganda, and when SCAP censors took over at war's end, the results were little better. Despite the censorship, a horde of leftist directors, writers and actors, who had been kept out of the movies...
...Bosoms. The man who capitalized most on the foreign imports and touched off the real postwar revival in Japanese moviemaking was Masaichi Nagata, 48, boss of the Daiei studios, who was purged for his World War II propaganda films, but soon after was taken off the purge list. Nagata studied foreign imports to find out what gave them their appeal, then applied what he could to his own products. For Japanese audiences, he decided, the romance of French movies would not do, nor would the sexiness of Italian films. "Unfortunately," says Nagata, "we don't have the bosoms...