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...runs a Broadway-Miami-Washington-Reno-Hollywood gossiporium which "suggests a continuous vaudeville entertainment in progress on a rubberneck bus en route to a peepshow and yet it may be the most effective pro-American propaganda medium in the country. . . ." In suggesting that Walter Winchell is the No. 1 propagandist-ideologue for World War II, Columnist Fisher may well be right. But last week Congressman Martin Dies, investigator of un-American activities, was planning to put Mr. Winchell under the magnifying glass...
...weaned Russian music from the influence of German Romanticism and Italian opera. He was also the author of important treatises on harmony and orchestration, the teacher of a whole generation of other Russian composers, the tireless performer of countless editorial and ghostwriting jobs, and a powerful propagandist for Russia's great composer, Modest Mussorgsky (Boris Godunov, Pictures At an Exhibition...
Hitler did not, as is commonly supposed, "hammer the same simple statement into the minds of millions; on the contrary, he played with the masses and titillated them with the most contradictory assertions." Heiden believes that "it is this art of contradiction which makes him the greatest . . . propagandist of his time. . . . He follows the shifting currents of public opinion," knowing always that "the weakness of this intellectual age" is its search for "the man who can master it. ... One scarcely need ask with what arts he conquered the masses; he did not conquer them, he portrayed and represented them...
...pornographic, expositions of his theory of unanimism, experiments in telepathy, in Extra-Retinal Vision. He was also a lecturer in philosophy, and a one-man conspiracy with hush-hush dealings with people like King Leopold of Belgium, General Gamelin, Premier Daladier, Otto Abetz, then Chief of Nazi Propagandist in France-under the delusion (as ingenuously described by him in his Seven Mysteries of Europe) that they were Men of Good Will...
...workers and their families have never seen a show in the flesh before. Mommas & Poppas, Negro & white, turn up in Sunday clothes, bringing open-mouthed tykes and even babes-in-arms. With the family in mind, It's Only the Beginning is as proper as it is propagandist...