Word: propagandists
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Interviewing officials did not know whether to consider him a self-appointed, Rudolf Hess-like emissary from the East, a Soviet propagandist or a crazy mixed-up author. They finally decided to let him stay...
...says: "My novel was not intended to be a political pamphlet. I wanted to show life as it is, in all its wealth and intensity. In the West they always quote the same two or three pages of my work. Have they read the rest? I am not a propagandist. This is not the meaning of my novel...
With its scarifyingly freakish weather, eerie sounds and collapsing houses, Cock-a-Doodle Dandy becomes at times a farcical free-for-all, as at other times it blares a propagandist freedom-for-no-one. Much of the writing, whether wrathful, lyrical or lowdown, has the true O'Casey tang. And despite symbols that are more like stencils and incidents too much like one another, Cock-a-Doodle Dandy has its amusing scenes and its fiery ones. Unhappily, in a quite un-Gaelic and ponderous production, there emerges nothing of the robustly comic playwright; the horseplay is elephantine, the darts...
...spent as a Dominican missionary in Mexico and Guatemala, Gage returned to England in 1637 and renounced Catholicism. He became a Protestant clergyman, and his book was written mostly to establish his respectability in Protestant eyes. It is thus fascinating both for direct clarity of observation and for a propagandist's hindsights...
...matter how good a reporter he proved himself, Gage could never resolve his propagandist's dilemma. When Spaniards got rich, they were rapacious, but when Sir Francis Drake did a little piracy, it was a "noble and gallant gentleman." So it went with one of Gage's great expose stories of Mexico. As he tells it, a "mighty and rich gentleman of Mexico" named Don Pedro Mejia joined with a viceroy to monopolize all the Indian maize and wheat in the country. The Indians and the poor appealed to the church, and Mexico's archbishop...