Word: propagandistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month swing through such cities as Cedar Rapids, St. Paul, Memphis and Denver. Lebanese Journalist and Spokesman Clovis Maksoud is in the midst of a four-month speaking mission from New York to Texas to California as special envoy of the 20-nation Arab League and chief Arab propagandist in the U.S. "It is important," says Maksoud, "that we catch up on 25 years of deficient communications, that we know each other through each other and not through the Israeli optic...
...sentiments on the war are clear, and he has fought it since 1967 in the best way he knows--educating Americans. Still, he has carefully guarded against letting his politics color his academic work. "I think it would be wrong to be a propagandist," he explains. "In this case, I think the facts are very eloquent. In any case, I think it's the function of an educator to let people judge for themselves. I don't think you can pre-fabricate a judgment. It will be damaging to your point of view. On the other hand...
Beatty said he believes that "the Russian conception of Reed as a fiery revolutionary was largely romantic. I am more interested in John Reed as a very left wing-writer who became less and less a poet and more and more a propagandist as his political involvement increased...
...Pasionaria " was the pen name of Dolores Ibarruri, a Communist leader and propagandist during the Spanish Civil War who is credited as being the author of the aphorism that "it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...
...Information Agency (USIA), Voice of America, with 2,303 employees and an annual budget of $55 million, operates under statutory authority. Its stated mission is to report on the U.S. and American foreign policy and to "combat Communism." In practice, it has wobbled between its dual roles as Government propagandist and conveyor of straight news. James Keogh, the former executive editor of TIME who became USIA director in 1973, discarded the old Cold War attitudes of his hard line predecessor, Frank Shakespeare. Under Keogh, a skilled, seasoned newsman, VGA began finally to accept detente as a reality and to report...