Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist Party-one step from expulsion. Ota Sik, architect of last year's economic reforms, was kicked out of the party. His fate was hardly surprising, since he is now teaching in Switzerland and said in a recent speech that Prague's party spokesmen make Nazi Propagandist Joseph Goebbels "look like an altar...
...freedom" to praise the Soviet system and the Communist Party and to urge people to fight for Communism. The theoretical basis for this is an article that Lenin wrote 60 years ago on "The Party Organization and Party Literature," which laid it down that every writer is a propagandist for the party. His job is to receive slogans and orders from the party and make propaganda out of them...
...winter-time Harvard student in Cambridge fro the summer can always set himself up "as the unofficial guru of the poor underprivileged culturally deprived Summer School girl. In this capacity the Harvard student not only gives guided tours of Cambridge night life, but also becomes chief propagandist for and informal teacher of the Harvard life style...
Still another factor was the remarkable popularity of Communist Jacques Duclos, a 72-year-old roly-poly extravert who looks as though he had never given up his youthful job as a pâtissier. Although he serves as the party's chief propagandist, Duclos wisely concentrated on giving Communism a friendly face and good one-liners-including the name of his dog, Pompon, after his favorite political opponent. Asked why his party disavowed the militant New Left, whom Frenchmen have nicknamed Gauchos, Duclos replied: "Gauchos, but they're American!" He seldom lost the chance to rumble mechanically...
When Grass criticizes contemporary German society in his novels and plays (a new play concerning a leftist student and a bourgeois dentist just opened in Berlin), he is not always successful, either as writer or as propagandist. The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising is proof of that. But in these speeches, he bluntly and without false pretenses practises the involvement in politics by German citizens that he espouses...