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...policy by the Iran withdrawal, and hurt at home by high prices and food shortages, tried to make peace the issue, and Churchill a warmonger. (Churchill on World War III: "The main reason that I remain in public life is my desire to prevent it.") Labor had a catchy slogan: "Whose finger do you want on the trigger? Attlee's or Churchill's?" Attlee, driven by his wife in their little family Hillman, set out on an eight-day campaign trip, singing this same theme as if it were a madrigal: "Peace on earth, good will toward...
...studios of Montmartre and Montparnasse. Mankind is consumed in making gas explode in cylinders, in making engines turn faster and faster . . . Genuine inspiration is stifled before it can bear fruit." ¶ Negro sculpture, Negro art, jazz, syncopated rhythm, contorted forms, flattened shapes-all this has become a slogan . . . The so-called renaissance of modern art is nothing more than a bastard arrangement of Negro art. In order to recover their youth, the elite of our civilization, who no longer have anything to say . . . have grasped greedily at the art of these alleged savages." ¶ "Abstract painters have betrayed painting...
...Blue." "At Michigan . . . fair play and sportsmanship are fine, but to win is of utmost importance . . . Michigan's maize and blue players are not encouraged to 'gang tackle'; they are simply ordered to cover the opposing ballcarrier with a 'blanket of blue.' " The slogan of the coaches, says Jackson, is still: "When Michigan loses, someone...
...from the party faithful when he swung into his familiar campaign song about the "special interests," "the special-privilege boys," "the economic fossils," "the pullbacks" and the "anti's" who were crippling the Fair Deal. The audience was unimpressed, even when he tried out a retreaded New Deal slogan as a theme for the next election: "Are you better off today than you were in the last year of the Old Deal...
...proud old 31st National Guard ("Dixie"'; Division thinks that it is getting rough treatment from the Pentagon. The division was recruited in Alabama and Mississippi with the slogan "Fight Together-Fight with Your Buddies." It had barely begun training this year at Fort Jackson, S.C. when the Army took 4,300 men from the division, put them in other outfits as replacements. Last week, rumors were flying that a second, even heavier, levy was in the works...