Word: sloganeer
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...SIXTIES live on in a sort of historical No Man's land. The slogan and tactics of that decade seem dated to many, but we are not ready to relegate the period to some collective historical unconscience. We are particularly unwilling--or perhaps unable--to confine the image of Martin Luther King Jr. to some library slot between Andrew Jackson and Robert Lowell. Despite the tragic slaying of the civil rights leader in 1968, Americans tomorrow will commemorate a man whose teachings are still relevant and, if we are lucky, very much alive...
Coke Is It '52 will soon add life to the Harvard alumni directory after Harvard graduate Frederick Karel Koch of Guilford, Vt. last week legally changed his name to match the soft-drink company's advertising slogan...
...breed can be smug and shallow. The younger yuppies tend to look at education and the future in terms of the dollar: the "trade school" approach to learning. The idea of winning buzzes always in their minds. It is at them that Michelob Light aims its ad with the slogan: "Who said you can't have it all?" The yuppies are Ueberroth's natural constituency...
...fracas on the Knesset floor. Claiming that the Greens have expressed support for the Palestine Liberation Organization, Geula Cohen of the right-wing Tehiya Party greeted the West Germans, who were sitting in the visitors' gallery, by holding up a poster that read BROWN GREENS OUT. The slogan was apparently intended to equate the left-leaning Greens with the Nazi Brown-shirts. Tewfik Toubi, an Arab-Israeli Communist who has been a member of the Knesset since 1949, leaped to his feet and tried to tear the placard from her hands exclaiming, "It's shameful to demonstrate against guests." Cohen...
...story, like most good stories, but how well it fits the discoverer of America, for Americans have always liked to imagine in themselves a special gift for confronting any challenge, rejecting any doubts, refusing to admit failure. "The difficult we do immediately," said a memorable World War II Army slogan. "The impossible takes a little longer...