Word: rosten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threads of domestic commercialism and foreign domination are evaluated in Barnouw's "Reckoning." For the former, he quotes Leo Rosten "it seems self-evident that to strain the milk of life through the cheesecloth of advertising must curdle creativity and--more ominously--contaminate truth." For the latter, he states: "The notion that America needs an assortment of...false faces for different purposes is a cold-war heritage that could be usefully abandoned...(also) it has involved large investments of public funds in broadcasting ventures...It is significant that countries which have become important bases for American propaganda transmitters include Portugal...