Word: sloganeer
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...student hopes to speak--or even think--about politics intelligently he must face three baffling problems. First, the fact that politics is becoming increasingly complicated, and second, its effects are becoming more and more explosive. As a mode of debate, argument-by-slogan is more dangerous than ever before, and as a mode of operation, policy-by-experimentation is less feasible. Thirdly, as the magnitude of political problems multiplies, the authority responsible for their solution becomes progressively concentrated. Faced with complex, crucial issues, and an imposing, impersonal government, students are at a loss to understand how they...
...except service," said Lewis. He was one of the first to install business machines to help tellers figure accounts rapidly, in 1956 ordered an all-electronic bookkeeping system. And when most banks limited the number of checks a depositor could issue without charge in any one month, Lewis' slogan was "checks without charge for household bills...
...yield to temptation, sin, but be just!" Says a footnote: "A very easy and peaceable moral thesis which had nothing in common with Catholic doctrine." And in chapter seven, when the bishop debates whether to return stolen goods or hand them to the poor, a footnote warns that "the slogan 'the end justifies the means' is not admissible in a bishop or anyone else. By not returning the goods . . . the bishop becomes an accomplice...
...Stalin can't see into the election booth, but God can." With this slogan, in Italy's 1949 election, Catholic Action workers backed up the Vatican's excommunication of any Roman Catholic who gave his vote to the Communists. Last week the ten-year-old slogan was dusted off. The Vatican's Holy Office published a decree giving Catholics another set of instructions. It is not permissible, said the decree, "for Catholics to give their vote to those parties or candidates which, although not professing principles in contrast to Catholic doctrine, nonetheless . . . unite with Communists...
...decline, Venetian "progressives" propose to build a "little Manhattan" on an artificial island at the western end of Venice, well away from the famed Grand Canal. Among radical changes proposed: i) some buildings would be small skyscrapers; 2) streets would be open to automobiles. The planners' slogan: "A city that is only a museum is already becoming a cemetery." Catchy as the slogan is, and eager as they, are to make the city prosper, Venice's city councilors last week were still resisting both automobiles and skyscrapers...