Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whites by putting unfair responsibility on the deprived for their deprivation. Jackson's response: "Slave masters never freely give up their power. The slaves have to rise up and cast off their oppressors." In fact, when asked a question Jackson nearly always responds with a well-rehearsed slogan or a ministerial platitude. Debate with him is difficult. Says Alice Blair, superintendent of Chicago's District 13: "You can't knock gimmickry because it does work with kids. But you can't do anything without good principals who are motivated to change things...
...even a refrigerator. But he is forbidden to marry the woman of his choice because of her "bad" class background. In "Chairman Mao Is a Rotten Egg," a young mother is virtually overcome by anxiety because her small child is rumored to have repeated a counterrevolutionary slogan picked up on the street from his playmates. K'uai Shih-fu is a common worker who, irritated because he cannot buy fish at the market, is provoked into a small but redeeming act of political defiance. These subtle, honest tales are apt to be considered literary oddities, parochial stories...
...participate in the proposed elections. At the same time let us take care not to turn majority rule into a device by which those who could not win an election try to force their way into office by the threat of force. Majority rule must not become the slogan of those who have already rejected a multiparty system and already announced that they want to create a one-party state. And majority rule must include protection for minority rights. If the black and white communities cannot live together under the rule of law, we will see a race...
Horner said the winning slogan carries a "message with dignity." "I think it's a little obscure but it's cute," Susan Comstock '78, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, said yesterday. "It's not very inspiring," she added...
Although its slogan was "From the Streets of New York, Greased and Ready to Kick Ass," the group originated, not in the streets of New York, but in the halls of Columbia University. Within a couple of years, the group had a national following, complete with network television spots, screaming throngs at concerts and appearances at rock festivals--even the biggest, baddest festival of them all, Woodstock...