Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elaborate and unworthy pun. It is, moreover, a pun on a single letter, for while the Presbyterian Church may well be a catholic church, as he contends, it is most certainly not, and will never be, a Catholic Church. He affirms that there has been "persistent propaganda to apply the word Catholic to the Roman Church alone." That also is false, for it has never been necessary . . . The Western world has always called the Church of Rome "Catholic," and will undoubtedly continue to do so despite the occasional agitation the usage provokes...
...votes for the Democratic party. Besides its sophistication, which automatically limits its audience, its content is just too slanted. Reading it is like sitting through a three-hour campaign rally. I have a suspicion almost all its readers are Democrats to start with. But as a monthly dose of propaganda, it will keep the faithful happy, their barrels fully loaded for any Republican who happens within earshot...
Since the Digest is the official publication of the Democratic National Committee, it is of necessity propaganda. But well-written propaganda, presented with a slick ness of style occasionally reminiscent of the New Yorker, even imitating it, such as in short quips and jibes under "Talk of the Nation." There are parodies each month. In November's issue, the man in the Hathaway shirt peered through his one good eye and said, "It takes me twice as long to read the Digest, but it's worth the time." A column, "Inside," scoffed at Newsweek's periscope ("Fewer erasers are being...
...East Berlin, Gerhart Eisler, onetime top U.S. Communist who skipped the country in 1949 to return to the workers' paradise in his homeland, was finding life less heavenly than ever. Already forbidden to grind out propaganda under his own byline, Eisler had now been kicked out of his imposing villa. The villa's new tenant: East Germany's Deputy President Heinrich...
...plot unfolds, more and more evidence of Commie propaganda is visible. The shire is on a five-year-plan to recover deer loses. But the climax comes in the blood purge at the end of the legend. Like Trotsky, Robin is found guilty of disloyalty to the state and is efficiently purged...