Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Decline of a Slogan. The declaration was the work of a Big Three meeting. But it was not a Big Three document. It was, above all, a U.S. document...
...parties are scrubbing up their platforms. Under Beaverbrook prodding, the conservatives will press for free enterprise, with state control only where necessary, e.g., social security, housing. Their slogan: Win With Winnie...
...Government proclaimed martial law in Little Kabylia, sent out punitive columns of Foreign Legionnaires, Senegalese and Moroccan troops. Artillery and aircraft smashed native villages. The new Algerian nationalist party, Amis du Manifeste ("Friends of the Manifesto"), was outlawed, its leaders arrested. The old Parti Populaire Algérien, whose slogan is "Algeria for the Algerians," was carefully watched...
...Japanese equivalent of old newspapers-sheets of popular prints engraved by native artists. Within a few years, Parisian poets and painters were ransacking Japanese packing cases as though the crumpled prints inside were an accidental answer to an occidental prayer. For the prints were a pat expression of a slogan that was sweeping France: art pour l'art-art for art's sake...
What this slogan meant, how it took root in France and invaded England, is the theme of this witty, intelligent history. Packed with anecdotes and character sketches of 19th-Century French and British bohemians, The Aesthetic Adventure is a fine companion piece to Author Gaunt's earlier, excellent account of The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy (TIME, Sept...