Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acter about a Mr. Chips-in-reverse, an unloved, dried-up academic tyrant on the way out of an English public school after 18 years. Like the play, the film daubs life liberally with greasepaint. But it is still a moving story, and lends British support to the Hollywood slogan that movies are better than ever-especially when adapted with care from successful plays or novels...
...cotton mills and shipyards were packed with grave, attentive audiences, pressing and persistent in their questioning, and sometimes skillful in heckling. Tories talked mostly about the cost of living, anxious to dodge the war party label that Labor tried to fasten on them. Tom Dewey's old slogan, "It's Time for a Change," turned up on Tory placards. Clement Attlee, making a virtue of his plainness, and of the Socialist largess, liked to look out over an audience that was plainly but warmly dressed and say: "I think you compare favorably with a 1945 crowd...
...Tories dubbed "Lord Festival of Abadan," in commemoration of his two best-known activities, tried to justify his notably unsuccessful foreign'policy: "The world has changed . . . but Labor understands this new world. We can treat the demands of Asia and Africa with understanding." And reacting to the Tory slogan, "A Vote for Labor Is a Vote for Bevan," Clement Attlee devoted a final broadcast to scotching the whispering campaign that, if elected, he would resign in favor of Bevan. "I am not going to resign," he said, "unless the people of this country reject my leadership...
...policy by the Iran withdrawal, and hurt at home by high prices and food shortages, tried to make peace the issue, and Churchill a warmonger. (Churchill on World War III: "The main reason that I remain in public life is my desire to prevent it.") Labor had a catchy slogan: "Whose finger do you want on the trigger? Attlee's or Churchill's?" Attlee, driven by his wife in their little family Hillman, set out on an eight-day campaign trip, singing this same theme as if it were a madrigal: "Peace on earth, good will toward...
...Blue." "At Michigan . . . fair play and sportsmanship are fine, but to win is of utmost importance . . . Michigan's maize and blue players are not encouraged to 'gang tackle'; they are simply ordered to cover the opposing ballcarrier with a 'blanket of blue.' " The slogan of the coaches, says Jackson, is still: "When Michigan loses, someone...