Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a Communist dies in Italy's heavily Red region of Emilia, the funeral cortege, decked out with red banners, slogan-bearing streamers and a brass band, looks like a political rally. Prohibited by law from parading across holy ground, the procession stops at the churchyard fence-but not necessarily the propaganda. Not long ago the priest of Ruina Ferrarese (pop. 800) found that at least one gravestone in the cemetery behind his tiny church was decorated not with a cross but with hammer and sickle...
...dead." Meanwhile, throughout Red Emilia, farmers and workers, priests and parishioners were peering through weed-grown cemeteries to see what other instances of mortuary Marxism they could find. Most notable example, in addition to dozens of hammers and sickles: the well-known Italian version of the revolutionary slogan-"Push on, 0 people, push on to Redemption Day"-painted on a headstone...
...seeking out stories of "socialist realism," he went about engaging "people in talk about which girl in which household had given birth to a bastard." He sneered that novelettes like his own Red Flower were "divorced from reality" and "stories told to console children." When Comrade Mao propounded his slogan of "Let all flowers bloom." Liu seized the opportunity to publish a new book, Grass at Hsiyuan, which, according to the shocked China Youth Daily, "turned Communists into monsters" and described many old party members as "war lords, vicious hoodlums, sex fiends, idiots, whores." Liu was sternly "advised" to behave...
Stay of Execution. Few weeks pass in which the Journal (slogan: "Spokesman of the Services since 1863") does not flail away at brasshatted bungling. Best-informed and most influential military publication in the U.S., it is studied closely from Capitol Hill to the White House (where 34-year Subscriber Eisenhower's copy* comes every Friday through the mail), from far-flung foreign bases to Washington's wire-service bureaus, which cull frequent stories from the Journal and label them "authoritative." Because the Journal has high-echelon readership (56% of its subscribers rank above Army captain) and high standards...
...from the hands of the Kudner Agency, which had held it tightly for 22 years. Kudner took on Buick when it was selling fewer than 100,000 cars a year, helped lift it into third place in 1954 (513,497 sales) with breezy, fun-stressing ads and such catchy slogans as "Better Buy Buick," "Hot? It's a Fireball," and the most famous auto slogan of all: "When better cars are built, Buick will build them...