Word: propagandistic
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...testimony in two weeks of hearings by the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, which showed how ITT and the Central Intelligence Agency conferred on ways to block the election of Marxist Salvador Allende in Chile 2½ years ago, provided enough juicy material to keep any Yankee-go-home propagandist busy for years...
...replay old records. There are such golden oldies as 'The Holy Family" (the Kennedys), "Nasser's Egypt," "E. Nesbit's Magic," "Tarzan" and "Writing Plays for Television," which offers a self-assessment yet to be equaled by Vidal's critics: "I am at heart a propagandist, a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise...
Danger in Europe. So went the continuing underground war between Arabs and Israelis. After the massacre of eleven Israelis at Munich (TIME cover, Sept. 18), an Israeli diplomat was killed in his London office by an exploding letter bomb. Four weeks later in Rome, an Al-Fatah propagandist who worked as a translator for the Libyan embassy was killed by a dozen shots that hit him as he walked out of his apartment house. Rome police have still not been able to decide whether his assailants were Israelis or members of the anti-Palestinian Jordanian intelligence service...
Baldwin the complex artist too of ten succumbs to Baldwin the propagandist and fantasist. When he calls America the Fourth Reich, he sounds as if fascism were a completed fact rather than a terrifying possibility. And when he speaks of "Martin" or "Malcolm," there is a touch of envy in his reverence. It is almost as if Baldwin would rather break the apron strings of his beautiful prose style and become a martyr himself. · R.Z.S...
...held responsible. Film, of course, is a collaborative medium, and a popular one, and its most interesting aspects usually range over nations and eras and industry trends rather than the small detail of a well-shot sequence. But once you assign responsibility to a director, label him an artist, propagandist, or hack, you can deal with issues mixed with flesh and blood, making for more than a lively read: a critic tries to guide the intelligent subject, or scourge the dolt. One of the best traditions James Agee set was bringing whole biographies to bear on points that matter...