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...Communism, Corruption"), rhyme ("All the way with L.B.J."), or a combination of both ("Tippecanoe and Tyler Too").* Other familiar standbys are paradox ("We have nothing to fear but fear itself"), metaphor ("Just the kiss of the hops"), metonymy ("The full dinner pail"), parody (a Norwegian travel folder promises "a Fjord in Your Future"), and punning ("Every litter bit helps"). By using what semanticists call "affective" language, many slogans deliberately exploit chauvinism ("Made in Texas by Texans"), xenophobia ("Yankee go home"), insecurity ("Even your best friends won't tell you"), narcissism ("Next to myself I like B.V.D. best"), escapism...
...classroom of Geography Master John Beacham. 32. who was to lead the trip, had been decorated for months with Norwegian flags, travel posters and fjord-toothed maps of Norway. The library copy of The Young Traveler in Norway was dirty and dog-eared from long use. For months, the boys had been working hard at odd jobs to save $76 apiece, the price of the trip. Last month, Dennis Field, son of one of the school's cleaning women, reluctantly gave up his place because he could not afford it. Quentin Green and another boy promptly applied...
...Grow On. In Grise Fjord, on Ellesmere Island, Canada, unable to read the instructions for assembling five prefabricated houses, a group of Eskimos did the best they could, built...
Last week, while 2,600 spectators chewed on their sembei (rice crackers), the curtain rose on Tokyo's 1956 season with Komaki's production of Swan Lake. The settings were Nordic in an almond-eyed kind of way, with an Oriental fishing junk afloat in a futuristic fjord. But the dancing was more nearly up to Occidental snuff, with 19-year-old Masako Sunaga and 5 ft. 3 in. Naoto Seki prancing and soaring in nearly flawless technique...
...Scholander's tentative conclusion: the pressure at the bottom of the Fjord (about 160 Ibs. per sq. in.) works in some unknown way in combination with the cold to keep the fish swimming and feeding when they should be hunks of ice. We'll come up with the answer in time " he says, "but there's a factor missing somewhere...