Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong, you understand," he remarked from the door. "This business is not all play. We've got a job to do--teach the people, promulgate the propaganda, foster good will. The world treads a tight-rope wire, and the blood of the body politic is watered with thin-skimmed and anemic apathy. We are the hypodermic needle...
Northerners must not allow the South to succeed in absolving the guilt of 75 years through "its vicious, dirty, lying campaign" of propaganda, Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told an informal audience last night in the Littauer Lounge...
Mixed Notices. With these hopeful words out of the way, the men of 42 nations hustled back to their pavilions and to the reality of today's world. The Brussels fair, however noble the aims and claims of its participants, has become a propaganda and prestige battleground in the cold war. The chief contestants: the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. From last week's opening until the closing next Oct. 19, an estimated 35 million visitors are expected...
...preferred the U.S. exhibit. But for all its air of sophistication and relaxation, the candor with which American life is portrayed, the humor displayed in the drawings of Cartoonist Saul Steinberg, some Europeans thought the U.S. exhibit "empty-looking" and something of a hodgepodge. Many criticized the "heavy propaganda" and the ponderous predominance of machinery in the Soviet pavilion, but felt that the Russians provided more to study...
Official Russia, with an eye cocked to the propaganda values of Cliburn's triumph, was just as ecstatic. At a Kremlin reception, squat Premier Nikita Khrushchev threw his arms about Van's beanpole, 6-ft.-4-in. frame, asked him why he was so tall. Grinned Van: "Because I'm from Texas." At a second Kremlin reception, Khrushchev bore down on Cliburn with hands outstretched, jovially introduced him to his son, daughter and granddaughter. When a waiter appeared with champagne, teetotaling Van shifted from one foot to another, murmured "I really don't care...