Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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POLITICS AND RHETORIC live in symbiotic bliss. Insofar as the emotive phrase sways the voter's heart more than the substantive argument, good speechmakers rank among the nation's most valuable political commodities. As the most updated guide to the ultra-conservative's galaxy, The New Right is the wor'd according to a master of the discipline. Direct-mail magnate Richard Viguerie has diversified and converted his seductive brand of extremist politics into pulp form. The New Right is tailored to become the bible of the conservative movement...
...Right reads like a hundred direct mail letters stacked an inch high and stuffed with selfrighteous indignation and paranoia. Its grab-bag stocks every conservative phrase since Great Britain wallowed in socialism, FDR sold Eastern Europe up the Volga, and the federal government destroyed the American family. In it we learn; "Separation of church and state...does not mean separation of God and government"; "Most of the liberal leaders are dead, retired, or just too tired to compete in the demanding decade before us"; and "History shows that military strength is the best way to prevent war with an aggressor...
...great silent performance of looks, gestures and poses. Mostly, however, people are used as unparticularized symbols. Nor are there many dramatically pointed scenes, only groupings in which it is up to cameraman, editor and director to ferret out (and impose) meaning-to "photograph thought," in Griffith's phrase...
...George Washington's to Jimmy Carter's, a dozen advisers submitted memoranda, Speechwriter Ken Khachigian prepared a draft. Flying back to California from Washington two weeks ago, Reagan read the pile of paper. Then the old actor, who has a superb inner ear for the crowd-pleasing phrase, put the whole mass aside and started out from scratch on a blank sheet of paper. Said he to aides, half apologetically: "I've got to do it in my own words." He kept scribbling away at Pacific Palisades, while movers bustled about crating up possessions...
When "the best and the brightest" went to war against the Axis, there was no ambiguity attached to the phrase...