Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Timothy Leary coins slogan for the psychedelic generation-"Turn on, tune in, drop...
Died. Joseph P. Spang Jr., 76, former head of the Gillette Co., who was among the first to recognize the advertising potential of sports events; of a heart attack; in Boston. "Look Sharp, Feel Sharp, Be Sharp" went the familiar razor-blade slogan, and few were sharper than Spang, who in 1939 sponsored World Series broadcasts, followed with the Kentucky Derby, football, boxing and the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports radio and TV shows-all of which helped Gillette become pre-eminent in the field, with earnings of $96 million by the time Spang retired...
...only real revolution will come when men's heads are changed so that they will no longer feel the need to use violence on other men. That is why the Revolutionary Contingent slogan of "2-4-6-8, Organize to smash the state" is so ridiculous: we would just have a new form of organized violence. What we really need is a liberation of minds, not a beating of heads. And for this you need more than a revolutionary vanguard-elite, but rather a large segment of the society. Isn't a revolution that alienates most of a population...
...test of strength came within 48 hours. In an outpouring of support, about 220 of the Congress Party's 282 M.P.s gathered in the high-domed Central Hall of the Parliament building. A slogan greeted her: "A new light has dawned-Indira has come." In response to the thunderous welcoming ovation, Indira, who wore a brown and red sari, folded her hands in the prayer-like Indian gesture of narnaste. She pledged to "rededicate myself, to rally the people to the cause of socialism and democracy and to rejuvenate the Congress." "The Congress Party has passed through many crises...
...when councilman Gerry O'Leary successfully used a radio slogan advising, "Vote O'Leary, he's been there before," it was one of the most valid appeals to Bostonian voter logic that could have been made...