Word: sloganeer
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...black and a woman, better than Obama and Clinton combined. I think she would be very attractive to the Harvard community.” Attractive, even without the Harvard degree.So perhaps the “Vote for Obama, put Harvard back in the White House!” slogan won’t unify the campus this year. But even if Harvard is absent from national politics in the coming years, debate and dialogue over national politics will be big on campus...
...insanity of bitterness rather than disillusionment. And, in fact, every character in the book has the right to feel that. Even the terrible old writer Ananias, they've all been twisted into horrible shapes by the state. You may live, but you won't love, that's the slogan. As Lev says, they took away the men we were going to be. That's the nature of the offense...
...Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871 strengthened the idea that having babies was a patriotic duty, an idea compounded by the national trauma of World War I, which cost France 10% of its working-age male population. Well before Marshal Pétain placed the Vichy regime under the slogan of "work, family and fatherland," keeping the French population alive had been a national priority...
...cheaper alternative: just as Vanguard launched the first stock-index mutual fund in 1976, Wall Street firms are beginning to offer low-cost funds that mimic common hedge-fund strategies. The first get-together of this nascent "hedge-fund replication" industry is happening this month in London (official slogan: The clones have landed). Mediocrity doesn't have to be such a bad thing, as long as it's intentional...
DIED. Robert Drinan, 86, liberal Democrat from Massachusetts and the first Roman Catholic priest to become a voting member of Congress; in Washington. A staunch opponent of the Vietnam War, he was elected in 1970 (with the help of campaign aide John Kerry and the slogan "Father Knows Best"). He charmed, and sometimes cowed, colleagues with his clerical clothing--he said he had no other suits--and was the first to call for Richard Nixon's impeachment, over the U.S.'s secret bombing of Cambodia. He left politics in 1980, after Pope John Paul II ordered him to resign, citing...