Word: sloganeer
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...point Shahak insists on making almost as often as he speaks or writes is the distinction between "principle" and "slogan." The former he describes as a belief under which an individual orders his life and a nation orders its social system. The latter is merely polemic...
...same time that he scores the Israeli government, however, Shahak has some strong criticism to level at the Palestinians. He is especially critical of the PLO's use of the slogan "democratic secular state," for Shahak claims the Palestinians have never defined or explained the concept in print to his satisfaction...
VICTORY FOR THE COMMON PROGRAM IS YOUR BUSINESS proclaimed the banner over the garlic soup and mussel bar. NATIONALIZATION IS THE WAY TO A MORE BEAUTIFUL LIFE was the message next to a cotton candy and candy apple stand. The leftist slogan, FOR A REAL CHANGE, was plastered on the walls of hundreds of booths displaying such gastronomical luxuries as pate de foie gras from the Gascogne and oysters from Arcachon. The scene was the annual ideological carnival sponsored by the Communist daily L'Humanité last week in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend...
...slogan of television programmers might well be a version of Lord Acton's aphorism: "Power corrupts, but oh! so intriguingly." ABC'S $7.5 million miniseries, Washington: Behind Closed Doors, an unabashed takeoff on Watergate, was just about as successful as the network had hoped it would be. The show climbed steadily from an opening-night Nielsen 34 share, and at week's end had captured a 40 or more share of tube watchers in major American cities. That was not quite a blockbusting success on the scale of Roots (viewing share...
...been running newspaper ads offering translating services so that Taiwanese can express their worries to Washington in English; in recent weeks 142,000 such letters have been sent to the White House and Congress. Instead of warning smokers about health dangers, packs of Taiwanese cigarettes carry a chin-up slogan: "Maintain self-respect and self-strengthening: stay calm in the face of adversity...