Word: propagandists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stature or the stomach to start it up again. That ancient rogue Benjamin Franklin, who had persuaded King Louis XVI to bankrupt his treasury in the rebel cause, was content to remain in Paris, for instance, chasing young ladies and flying kites in thunderstorms. Thomas Jefferson, the greatest propagandist of the age, also sought refuge in Europe, where he lived with his beautiful black mistress and continued his mischief-making for another 43 years. A fascinating, tragic figure, Jefferson became an inspiration to generations of novelists, poets and composers. Sir Walter Scott used him as the hero of Monticello...
...next stiffest sentence-life imprisonment-went to the Gang of Four's Wang Hongwen, 46, who had rocketed from obscurity to the No. 3 slot in the Communist Party hierarchy during the Cultural Revolution. The fourth member of the Gang, Propagandist Yao Wenyuan, 49, got 20 years. The other six defendants, including five former top military officers convicted of plotting to kill Mao in 1971, got sentences ranging from 16 to 18 years in prison...
...substantive question which arise from this debate was this: For whom does Mr. Gershman speak? Was he supposed to be more sympathetic of the Black underclass than the Black bourgeoisie? Or was he supposed to be the scholarly propagandist of the bourgeoisie class who clothed himself in the liberal veneer of bourgeoisie objectivity...
...Americans, the world's judgment seems to be rigged up to a perverse double standard. Let only a rumor waft through, a propagandist's mischievous fantasy about the CIA's organizing the attack on the Sacred Mosque at Mecca, and rioters swarm like film extras against U.S. consulates from Turkey to India; in Islamabad, Pakistan, two Americans die and the embassy goes up in flames. Let the U.S. admit the deposed Shah for temporary medical treatment, and the Tehran embassy, with all occupants, becomes the property of overheated Shi'ite gunmen. But let four Soviet divisions...
Seen close up at the Waldorf in the wake of these events, Shostakovich scarcely looked fit for his assigned role as Stalin's propagandist. He cut a surprisingly frail figure on the dais at the Starlight Roof, where he was seen to light cigarette after cigarette with trembling hands. His face was at the mercy of twitches and tics, his lips were drawn in an unconvincing smile. A translator read his speech for him; it attacked both U.S. warmongers and Igor Stravinsky, and praised the "unheard-of scope and level of development reached by musical culture in the U.S.S.R...