Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cartoonist for Krokodil, Moscow's sardonic magazine of humor-plus-propaganda, Vitaly Goriaev has many times bitterly lampooned Wall Street as the rotten heart of decadent capitalism. Last week, touring Manhattan as the guest of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, Goriaev was candidly eager to see what the place is really like. Heading toward the Street in a taxicab, he thought he could sense the pace of city life accelerating. "Time is money," he said. "The closer you get to Wall Street, the more the tempo picks...
Guided Thinking. Huxley cites such opinion-forming techniques as brainwashing, subconscious communication, drugs, sleep teaching. But when he discusses propaganda, Huxley begins to advocate it. The champion of laissez-faire in the marketplace of ideas becomes the proponent of guided thinking for the masses-along the proper lines, of course. Individuals, he says, "should be taught enough about propaganda analysis to preserve them from an uncritical belief in sheer nonsense, but not so much as to make them reject outright the not always rational outpourings of the well-meaning guardians of tradition. That which is merely irrational but compatible with...
...Baker got word that the Soviet Foreign Ministry had declared him persona non grata on grounds that he "systematically violated the norms of behavior for diplomatic representatives." Translation: John Baker was persona too grata to the young Russians, who had been raised on a stiff diet of hate-America propaganda...
...satellites, and the Communist Party cannot keep appeasing the demand without jeopardizing its rule. Furthermore, the Soviet policy of economic aid to non-Communist nations has not led swiftly to the political conquests the Kremlin seeks (it is noteworthy that Nasser returned to Egypt full of Russian propaganda backing but saying nothing about getting any rubles). It has also become clear that Russia cannot whistle up a summit conference on its terms alone...
...part, Nasser, plainly enjoying the Russian hospitality, and reportedly given a reduction of his arms debt to Russia as a going-away present, told Khrushchev that "only imperialist, hostile, false propaganda says you are arming and preparing...