Word: sloganize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admitting that their campaign slogan would undoubtedly produce a "blip-blip" on TV, Author Norman Mailer and Writer Jimmy Breslin formally announced their respective candidacies for New York City mayor and city council president. What's more, they were serious about it. "We are sentimental about the past," said Mailer. "We want New York to thrive again, to be a city famous for the charm, ferocity, elegance, strength, calm and racy character of its separate neighborhoods." The Mailer-Breslin plan is to detach the city from New York State and make it a city-state of its own, organized...
...fourth try for the presidency of Venezuela last December, Rafael Caldera summed up his platform in a ringing slogan, el cambio-change. A sufficient number of Venezuelans found the proposition appealing enough to make Caldera the first opposition leader to win power democratically in his country's 148-year history, though his plurality was a thin .8% of the vote. Despite the narrowness of his victory, and after only seven weeks on the job, Caldera has already made a notable start toward fulfilling his promise of el cambio...
Richard Nixon is silent. There are no compilations in his coat pocket because there has been no significant legislation. Nixon does not even have a slogan for his Administration. There is barely the beginning of a program. He has not yet brought peace, slowed inflation, cleansed the air and water, warded off piracy or uplifted the ghettos...
...major CCAS meeting on Saturday night, MIT Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky called the conference a reflection of the "much-too-long-delayed questioning of American society" within the professions. Linking it to the March M.I.T. work stoppage (whose slogan was "March 4 is a movement, not a day"), he urged other professional groups to follow the example of the CCAS. Harvard graduate student Jim Peck, one of the prime movers of the CCAS conference, says, "CCAS is a movement, not a committee...
...last year's May-June crisis of rioting and strikes, Pompidou provided Frenchmen with an impressive demonstration under fire that he can do the job. There are indeed some indications that the French are tiring of De Gaulle. In the eleventh year of his Fifth Republic, a new slogan is being scrawled on walls and sidewalks in Paris: "Dix ans, ça suffit"-"Ten years, that's enough." There are widespread worries about France's weak economic position and the continued threat of the devaluation of the franc. Still, on evidence of the past record, it would...