Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale Mary", Jean-Luc Godard's controversial sequel to last year's hit "Hail Mary" opens amid virulent protest at the Orson Welles Theatre. The film, featuring Eli Jodie Foster as an undergraduate English major and part-time mother of God, is condemned by President Bok as "flagrant Yale propaganda." Bok adds, "Besides, Princeton is the only Ivy school that can boast a celebrated virgin...
...mindset sees improper jingoism in such movies as Rocky IV and Rambo. It views them as irrational, or at best incredibly simplistic. These movies present a fairy-land world of American virtue versus totalitarian evil; and since the world really is not anything like this, these movies are "shameless propaganda." Worse yet, the electorate might really start to believe this stuff and vote for a president who will lead us into war. And, as everyone who is clear-thinking knows, America's wars are usually immoral...
Rocky IV is no ordinary movie--in fact it's barely a movie at all. It is a Gesamtkunstwerk done MTV style, a self-inflicted patriotic catharsis of shameless propaganda exploiting the current American past-time of reasonless xenophobia. Whatever you call it, I cannot deny Stallone's drawing power nor can I blame the people who froze with me in order to see his hulking physique. For better or worse, the former porn star has created a myth that exerts a definite influence over the attitudes and behavior patterns of most viewers...
...before The Game and the last chance to buy Crimson propaganda ridiculing the Elis. But instead of having a choice of half a dozen t-shirts and caps denigrating Yale, Harvard students can purchase only one of two shirts and one type of painter...
...have by now lost all patience for your Communist propaganda, though we are alike in our strategic conceptualizations....I got into Harvard Early Action....new methods...fight for unity and strength through the quelling of dissent and deviant thought such as yours...