Word: sloganeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love it. The only town on the planet where a civility-campaign slogan could be, "You talkin' to me?" And the best part is that everyone in New York, with the lone exception of Giuliani, has caught the irony. "He's got a lese majeste personality," observed ex-Mayor Ed Koch. "If you say anything critical, off to the guillotine...
...since 1945 has been as popular. Korea was a strung-out, bitter bloodletting that ended in a stalemate. What ever happened to unconditional surrender? That had been the victory slogan for World War II, and the U.S. now seemed to expect nothing less every time. If Korea was not a good war, Vietnam was a distinctly bad one. The 15-year struggle in Indochina was even bloodier, more costly and harder to understand than Korea, and its support ebbed away. As the war wore on, it filled U.S. streets with demonstrators, tore up university campuses, split society and families, dragged...
...Philadelphia last week, the television camera was more important than a good political slogan--and more frightening than a powerful political enemy. Never had a national convention been so continuously and fully mirrored. Thanks to TV, about ten million spectators along the Eastern seaboard actually saw the convention in action. In scattered communities across the U.S., five million others saw telefilm versions while the news was still warm--three to 24 hours after it happened. it was far & away the biggest gallery television had ever...
...year from now, whether Clinton did or did not have an extramarital relationship won't affect anyone. But the entire nation will still feel the impact of having a strong economy. If I were Clinton's adviser, I would stick to the campaign slogan "It's the economy, stupid!" JORGE VILLELA Mexico City
...undoubtedly true that the slogan-chanting, building-seizing radicalism of 1969 is a thing of the past. And Epps, in his interview, appropriately notes that the movements for withdrawal from Vietnam and University divestment from South Africa were largely elitist in their sources and support: of the students who occupied University Hall in April 1969 (in the process of forcibly ousting Epps, then an assistant dean of students, from his office), "there was only one scholarship student," Epps informs us. Epps believes that the campus has seen two major cultural shifts: one in the late '60s, from a culture...