Word: bannering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam involvement marches under the semantic banner as the containment of Communism," Kennan said. As a leading architect of containment and former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Kennan attacked Vietnam as a radical departure from the principles underlying American support of European reconstruction at the end of World...
...banner and chant they proclaimed their purpose: "Sweep the great renegade of the working class onto the garbage heap!" and "Sweep the Khrushchev of China into the dustbin of history!" The man so described by these sanitation-minded youngsters, who also referred to him as "a paper tiger," the "big shot" and the "main root of revisionism," was Red China's President Liu Shao-chi, the chief foe of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The renewed attacks on Liu showed that Mao and his followers have not yet succeeded in winning the day; they...
...Violation of rules and the law is one quick way of doing this. It is a lever that can be pulled to get instant attention. Advertising techniques come to the campus in the service of prophecy not profit. The student activist is the PR expert. The simplistic slogan and banner headline replace the carefully reasoned argument. The style is daring, flamboyant and egotistical. It is a revolt that draws more on Madison Avenue than on convictions about the nature of the historical process...
...Stephens '68, president of Harvard-Radcliffe Young Republicans, introduced them: "And here they are--Up With People!"--and 130 freshly scrubbed brown and white and yellow Sing-Out Kids burst onto the Sanders Theatre stage singing "The Star-Spangled Banner." Their blue eyes gleamed and smiles wrapped all the way around their faces. Their hair was short and they wore yellow and tan and blue blazers or pastel jumpers with white blouses. And they were loud, singing there on the risers below a huge Up With People! Sign...
...London and the West End, demonstrating national support for the "rebels of the London School of Economics." For Britain's universities, sharply divided by tradition and the "tracking" system, it was a rare moment of unity: students from Leeds, Manchester, Regent St. Polytechnic, and Cambridge (among others) carried banners together and wore a new symbol of quiet protest: yellow daffodils. The London Times called the student demonstrations "unprecedented in British university history." The march was inspired by the round-the-clock LSE sit-in which began a week ago Monday. Between 200 and 800 students have been occupying...