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...Making of Ashenden," Warren Ashenden is the jet-set heir to a matchbook fortune. His father was the originator of the slogan, "For Our Matchless Friends." Ironically, Warren is literally matchless because he can find no partner to equal his self-image as one of the three or four dozen truly civilized men. Ashenden is a hopeless romantic, one of the "last young men in America," in middle age, "still looking for himself." And his story is a self parody of a hopelessly romantic Love Story peopled from Burke's Peerage. The 'Making' of Ashenden is actually a make...
Each era of expansionism has had its own popular slogan--from "Manifest Destiny" to "Open Door" to Henry Kissinger's "Stable Structure of Peace." The aim of foreign policy nevertheless remains the same--the establishment of what John Adams in 1774 called "an independent empire...
...vesque, 51, a brilliant journalist who left the Liberals because of their strong support of federalism. Although the péquistes enlisted an impressive array of French-Canadian intellectuals as assembly candidates, the momentum of the campaign gradually swung to the Liberals, whose slogan, Bourassa construit (Bourassa builds), was a not too veiled hint that Lévesque destroys...
...Oxford, he earned two degrees, then in 1934 returned to Oklahoma to practice law. In 1941, he enlisted in the Army as a private, emerging five years later a lieutenant colonel. Then, adopting the slogan FROM THE CABIN IN THE COTTON TO THE CAPITOL, he won election to Congress from Oklahoma's "Little Dixie" district, which borders on the late Speaker Sam Rayburn's district in Texas. Albert entered the House in 1947, the same year as freshmen Representatives John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon...
...belonged to the likes of Dick Tracy and Mary Worth. But Pogo was a smash. At its peak, the strip appeared in nearly 500 papers. The self-effacing possum made a major splash on the national scene in 1952, when college students parodied the Republicans' "I Like Ike" slogan by chanting "I Go Pogo." After a national write-in campaign, Pogo gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy and abused civil liberties in Okefenokee. Nikita Khrushchev appeared as a grumpy pig. Portraits of Lyndon...