Word: sloganeer
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Change, when it was constant and fairly manageable, used to be called progress. At the deepest point in the Depression, Chicago held a 1933 World's Fair gamely celebrating "The Century of Progress." The slogan was forgivably boosterish then, but now change is regarded far more neutrally. The word describes not merely the advances but all the tumults, the violence, the wrenching readjustments of our era. Even necessary change has its costs, for as the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead put it, "It is the first step in wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which...
Second, the statement shows a deliberate lowering of scholarly standards to the level of a circus master P.T. Barnum's slogan, "give the people what they want." In the name of honesty, however, it might be more appropriate to change the title of his book and article to Thinking About Crime--Except for the Vast Ones Committed by the Mafia, the U.S. Government, Large Corporations and Respectable Middle Class Citizens...
Early Finnegan campaign billboards featured the now famous slogan, "Finnegan or Him Again," referring to four-term Mayor Kevin H. White. After White announced last May that he would not seek reelection, the slogan became "Begin Again with Finnegan...
...problem, as the revolutionary armies and the party saw it in 1949, was Mao's thinking. "Mao Thought" should not be considered simply a dogma, or a slogan, least of all a coherent doctrine. It should be thought of as a spike, driven by the will of one man into the minds of his people, to nail them to his purpose. But in the next 25 years the spike was driven through the living flesh of people until they bled, or hungered, or died at random, until life became chaos. The spike had to be torn out or half China...
...shogun, head of a military oligarchy that had established itself in the 12th century, was "barbarian-subduing generalissimo," and now he had proved helpless. Angry nationalists rallied around the idea of overthrowing the disgraced shogunate and restoring direct rule by the Emperor, descendant of the sun goddess. Their slogan: Sonno-joi (Revere the Emperor! Drive out the barbarians...