Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both sides of the Iron Curtain last week the atmosphere was scented with soft words and occasional gentle deeds. Russian Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg announced that the Russians are "sick and tired of the cold war" and want to end it. Premier Georgy Malenkov beamed a velvety message to the U.S.: "With all my heart I wish the U.S. people happiness and a peaceful life ... I believe there are no obstacles to the improvement of relations." Radio Moscow even enlivened one broadcast with the long-forbidden "decadent" music of George Gershwin...
...camp as a lifetime ally. In Huxley's The Farcical History of Richard Greenow, a brilliant young man is possessed of a sister personality. When he isn't functioning as himself, Richard Greenow, a fighting pacifist, he is operating as Pearl Bellairs, a violently patriotic war propagandist-all of which permits Author Huxley to aim his wit at two political extremes and much that is in between...
...separate information services now operated by the International Information Administration, Mutual Security Agency and Technical Cooperation Administration. But it warned against the high-pressure huckster touch: "American broadcasts and printed materials should concentrate on objective, factual news reporting . . . The tone and content should be forceful and direct, but a propagandist note should be avoided...
Lawyer Littell charged that Pearson had damaged him by writing in his column: "The Justice Department is casting a quizzical eye on ... Norman Littell. They have reports that Littell is acting as a propagandist for the Dutch government, though he failed to register as a foreign agent." The jury decided that Pearson was wrong on his facts because Littell had never worked for the Dutch government...
...vote of 255 to 68, the move called the investigations "unnecessary" and suggested that college committees are best qualified to cope with the "infrequently not Communist propagandist...