Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believes the war led to the habit of simple distinction, simplification and opposition. Here he expands his argument to include "paranoid melodrama," the rumor-mongering, and the civilian/soldier dichotomy associated with the war. This latter argument is particularly convincing, since it shows how press censorship and government propaganda suppressing the grim horrors of war alienated the soldier from civilians...
...owed his fame as a poet to the fact that he appeared on the Italian literary stage at a time when there were few other performers. He became a success because he managed to write poetry that filled a political function: a poetry the Left could use as cultural propaganda. Now, after his murder, the books of "our martyred comrade" are selling fast...
...political phony, a mediocre poet, an opportunist filmmaker capitalizing on the Roman desire for circuses with lots of blood and sex, and if his death was such a senseless piece of violence--why all the fuss? Was the shock expressed by all Italy, and especially Rome, merely political propaganda of the PCI, melodramatics of the intellectual elite, and bloodthirsty scan-dalmongering on the part of the greater public? Of course all this contributed to the clamor, but there was something else behind the strong reaction of the students who marched through Rome in mourning, the political activists who pasted...
...Russian satellite "just because the Soviet Union supplies us with weapons." One helpful first step would be to persuade the South Africans to withdraw their forces from the conflict. Last week there were renewed efforts by the U.S., Britain and Zambia to do just that. Once the Russians' propaganda card has been removed, opinion in the O.A.U. might be mobilized to support the withdrawal of all foreign forces-including the Russians and the Cubans. And although President Ford ruled out withholding American grain shipments as a means of pressuring the Russians, he also served notice to Moscow last week...
...Propaganda Weapon. Prime Minister John Vorster described television as a mixed blessing and warned that "slanted news" would be corrected. Opposition newspapers feared that any abuses might come from the government, which has sole control over the network. "The mere presentation of the world at large is bound to have a far-reaching effect," editorialized the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail. But so powerful a visual medium, it said, could also become a propaganda weapon "particularly when, as in South Africa, it is so much under the thumb of the political party in power...