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THE EXAMINER OF SOULS

By Lida Prypchan   What I admire about Mr. J. M. is his ability to examine the souls of those around him. At the first contact, a look, a few sentences, a handshake and J. M. already knows who the other person is. I always tell him that he should work in the identification offices. …

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ART, OPINION AND POLITICAL PROPAGANDA (I)

By Lida Prypchan “We can conceive of a world dominated by an invisible tyranny which adopts the form of a democratic government.”                               Kenneth Boulding   In the same way in which we are sold a commercial product, the same is …

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Political Propaganda: An Attempt to Exert Influence on Opinion (II)

  By Lida Prypchan   “Politics is the art of preventing people from getting involved in what concerns them.”   Valéry     Political propaganda has been inspired by and has taken from poetry many of its procedures: the seduction of rhythm, the prestige of the verb, the violence of  images, and dramatic progression.  It …

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WOMEN AND THE NOVEL

  By: Lida PrypchanEnglish writer Virginia Woolf deals with this subject in her book A Room of Her Own. The title can have a variety of meanings for us, such as women and what they are like, or women and the novels they write, or women and the fantasies that have been written about them; …

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