Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because the Faye Emerson Show comes on the air when the audience is presumably stunned by the action-filled, clamorous, 2½-hour Saturday Night Revue, Faye's slogan is "Let's just be quiet for a few minutes." About the only demand that decorative, 32-year-old Faye makes on her listeners is to ask their help in deciding such pleasantly egocentric problems as whether or not the Emerson décolletage is cut too low. Says she: "I wear on TV just what I'd ordinarily wear at that hour of the night...
...hardy little group of Republicans in the Senate. But there were other Republicans who were not so happy at the idea. Bipartisanship, snapped Ohio's Robert Taft, "is not accomplished by the appointment of an individual Republican . . . Bipartisanship is being used by Mr. Truman as a slogan to condemn any Republican who disagrees with Mr. Truman's unilateral foreign policy, secretly initiated and put into effect without any real consultation with Congress...
...months, East German Communists had militantly whooped up a Whitsunday youth march on West Berlin. The Reds had proclaimed that, on May 28, half-a-million members of the Communist-run FDJ (Freie Deutsche Jugend) would converge on Berlin's Western sectors in military formation. Their slogan: "Forward-Berlin Must Be Ours!" In Meissen, a Communist speaker had added a warlike warning. Said he: "When the first shot is fired, that will be the signal for the storming of Berlin...
Hollywood's latest slogan is "Movies Are Better Than Ever," but it is hard to prove by two of its latest cinemusicals. Neither better nor worse than any of their predecessors in a long assembly line, both are profusely Technicolored illustrations of creative poverty in the midst of technical plenty. They also share backstage settings and a weakness for toying archly with the idea of unmarried pregnancy-a subject which Hollywood might be expected to regard as no joke...
...consumer goods, sparked by innovation, advertising, packaging. Back home he planned a great advertising crusade to teach the people to want and use new products. "We should not surrender before the old custom of living on borsch and mush," he said. He even tried his hand at writing a slogan about soap: "He who does not wash himself several times a day is a candidate for the hospital...