Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election day, voters had to dip their left thumb in a bottle of indelible red ink to prevent repeat performances. Even without repeats, the popular winner by far was Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda, 38, whose United National Independence Party drew 65,000 votes with its slogan, "Kwacha!" (Dawn), and its appeal for more black power. But Kaunda won only 14 seats, and Welensky's United Federal Party, with one-third of the votes, won 15. The African National Congress of roisterous Harry Nkumbula, Kaunda's ex-mentor, won five seats. Ten seats were left vacant because too few voters...
...been excusable if the candidate chose some other forum to set forth and defend his program. But Ted's candidacy served no expository function; he did not present the New Frontier goals to the voters of Massachusetts. Lacking imagination, humility and conviction, the youngest Kennedy substituted a smile, a slogan, and a great deal of money. The best that can be said in his defense is: smart politics. But only if one plays at thinking like a Kennedy advisor, can one excuse Teddy's surliness on the grounds that "he had nothing to gain...
...Benjamin Smith's successor should not be singled out today as a special case. The level of political debate all over this country is disturbingly low. Yet when a former Massachusetts Senator, John F. Kennedy, ran for the Presidency against a man named Nixon, he did transcend the smile-slogan level. He did present a program and an articulate, progressive vision for this country. His younger brother, however, instead of transcending swamp-politics mired in it, and finally has come to epitomize...
Dead Chicks. To protest such inequities, demonstrators from Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges massed in Brussels. Marching ten abreast down the Avenue du Midi, some of them toting banners with the absurd slogan "Flemish Doctors for Flemish Patients," they ran smack into phalanxes of waiting Walloons, and the riot was on. When one Flemish tough tossed a "thunderflash"-a beer can filled with gunpowder-into the crowd, 4,000 steel-helmeted riot police who had been poised just off the boulevard wheeled into action...
...major issue of the campaign is "whether we will send someone to Washington who will support the national administration." The well-worn slogan "He can do more for Massachusetts" means to him, "I can do more for because I support a Democratic program, and a Democratic program does more for the people." Lodge interprets Ted's slogan in terms of who can attain more defense contracts for Massachusetts. He argues that two elected Kennedys can offer only mutual embarrassment, not mutual aid. But, even on Lodge's terms, will a President who appoints one brother Attorney General and permits another...