Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Federation of Republican Women in 1967, she lost in a bitter campaign against a more moderate candidate. Schlafly's own next-door neighbor in Alton, a housewife and active Republican, accused her at the time of being "an exponent of an extreme right-wing philosophy-a propagandist who deals in emotion and personalities where it is not necessary to establish facts or prove charges...
DIED. Kuo Mojo, 85, China's most prolific and durable literary figure; in Peking. A poet, novelist, dramatist and translator, he was also a propagandist who at the proper times sang the praises of Chiang Kaishek, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Hua Kuo-feng...
While a complete military triumph seems out of the question, he feels that Berlin could negotiate a settlement with Moscow ("Stalin need take no account of his public opinion"), thus freeing German forces to contend with the Allies in the West. This was probably the master propagandist's final delusion. As Soviet tanks rumbled through Berlin on May 1, 1945 -21 days after his last entry and the day following Hitler's suicide in the Fiihrer-bunker-Goebbels and his wife Magda methodically poisoned their six children and then killed themselves...
Ralph Nader [Nov. 14] may be "spreading himself too thin," but he certainly goes a long way. You state that Nader "is far more effective as a propagandist than a lobbyist." Well, so what? If he can cause several hundred "apathetic" students to become concerned about the pitiful state of this country, then he's a step ahead of our so-called leaders...
...about six blocks from the White House, has had to turn more tasks over to subordinates. They sometimes lack his ability for marshaling facts. Result: complaints have increased that some of Nader's research has become sloppy. Another difficulty is that Nader is far more effective as a propagandist than as a lobbyist; none of his organizations can begin to match the well-heeled business lobby...