Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awkward position of arguing: "We can do it better." Last week, with unemployment dropping and installment buying at an alltime high, Britain, was riding a wave of prosperity so general that even a delegate to the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool echoed Macmillan's airy slogan, said: "We've never 'ad it so good." According to the Gallup poll, the Tories were 5½ points up on the Socialists, enough to return them with perhaps twice their present 60-seat majority in Parliament...
...student hopes to speak--or even think--about politics intelligently he must face three baffling problems. First, the fact that politics is becoming increasingly complicated, and second, its effects are becoming more and more explosive. As a mode of debate, argument-by-slogan is more dangerous than ever before, and as a mode of operation, policy-by-experimentation is less feasible. Thirdly, as the magnitude of political problems multiplies, the authority responsible for their solution becomes progressively concentrated. Faced with complex, crucial issues, and an imposing, impersonal government, students are at a loss to understand how they...
...Premier Khrushchev takes this slogan to mean "working for a better life for the people within the Soviet Union, that is one thing. If on the other hand he means the victory of Communism over the U.S. and other countries, this is a horse of a different color. For we have our own ideas as to what system is best...
...classics in political dialogue-for one thing, constant translations seemed to bring out a simplified pidgin style of discourse. And the cold war has reached a point where the same dialogue works for both sides: Nixon got his biggest cheers and widest smiles by calling out that old Communist slogan, Mir i Druzhba (Peace and Friendship). It was what everybody wanted to hear, wanted to believe...
...Jack Tworkov stands for not standing for anything: "If I have a slogan, it is 'No commitment'; at a moment when there is admittedly little common ground, the best morality is not to have...