Word: erin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toilet-paper streamers festooned the trees. Strings of firecrackers chattered like machine guns. Signs were everywhere. SONS OF ERIN, UNITE! they said. RUB THEIR NOSES IN THE IRISH SOD! Sturdy young men stopped strangers, flashed their "Hate State!" buttons and inquired politely: "You wouldn't be a State man, now, would you?" South Bend, Ind., was no place for the faint of heart last week. Notre Dame, the No. 1 college football team in the nation, was taking on Archrival Michigan State?and the Fighting Irish were in a fighting mood...
Seven Is Tops. The word "slogan," from the Gaelic sluagh (army) and gairm (a call), originally meant a call to arms-and some of history's most stirring slogans, from "Erin go bragh" to "Remember Pearl Harbor" have been just that. In peacetime, argues Hayakawa, electorates respond more readily to slogans that promise change, since people are rarely satisfied with things as they are. One notable exception was the catch phrase that helped return Britain's Tory Party to power in 1959: "You never had it so good." In general, though, Democrats, like detergent manufacturers, favor slogans that...
...year at Harvard was characterized by issues slightly more crucial than what language to have on diplomas and by problems perhaps more acute than the mass withdrawal to Washington. Dean Erin N. Griswold of the Law School was troubled most by the Kennedy Administration, which took about one-eighth of his faculty, but even one Harvard dean could complain louder. Don K. Price, Dean of the School of Public Administration, was heard to say that President Kennedy stole 100 per cent of his full-time faculty--i.e. Secretary of the Public Administration Faculty, David Bell, who was named Director...
...group of high school girls near Andrews Square wait for the start of the parade. Middle, Governor John A. Volpe (left) and Senate President John E. Powers--both loyal sons of Erin--wave to the crowd. U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall and other dignitaries also rode in the parade...
...Hostage, by Brendan Behan. A gorgeous display of Erin-go-bawdry, keening Celtic lyricism and tongue-out-of-cheek irreverence. In an incoherent sort of way, it is all about an English soldier captive in Ireland...