Word: sloganeered
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...politics. Onganía also promised to hold down the country's soaring cost of living (up 30% in 1966) and to impose some belt tightening and other much needed reforms on the country. To give his program some grandeur, he even borrowed Charles de Gaulle's slogan: "Vérité et sévérité." "I demand truth and austerity," said Onganía. "We need austerity everywhere...
...like Ike.' Never was a political slogan more apt or more successful. They like him today, even though his prestige has diminished. And along with his likeableness, Ike had dignity and the command-assurance of a soldier. The eight Eisenhower years were great years for the Republic...
...orderly thought with irrational accident. Even the title is a gag, deriving from McLuhan's earlier pronouncement: "The medium is the message." That meant, as any anthropologist might have put it, that technology predetermines social structure; hence, tools prefigure the psychology of their users. By punningly altering the slogan, McLuhan merely means that "all media work us over completely...
...then renounced politics (partly, his friends say, because of campaign slurs about his interracial marriage) until 1960, when Republicans persuaded him to run for secretary of state. His opponent was an affable, able politician named Kevin White, and while the campaign was generally free of racial smears, one slogan that popped up?VOTE WHITE?carried an innuendo that was hard to ignore. Brooke lost narrowly...
...tone of Midwest innocence and irony, the fey and the freak who get caught up in the drama. Morris has used them all before, often to great comic effect. This time he has barely bothered to construct more than the outline of a story, leaning on the kitschy existential slogan: "Things just happen. No reason, no reason, just a happening...