Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purely a Negro problem. It's a social and economic problem?an American problem," he says. He sees racial problems as essentially a conflict between "haves and have-nots," rather than between blacks and whites. He has been stonily hostile toward the concept of black power. "That slogan has struck fear in the heart of black America as well as in the heart of white America," says Brooke. "The civil rights bill of 1966 was lost because of rioting and violence. The Negro has to gain allies?not adversaries...
...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...
...Your assumption that Clark Kerr was fired justifiably because he "failed to keep the peace at Cal" has disturbing implications for those of us who do not believe that "peace at any price" is an appropriate slogan for a university...
...Minister in 1959 he has tried to turn the PLA into a "Great School" of Maoist thought. He and Mao disapproved of the 1950's soldier, whose mind was directed toward tactics more than politics. The two of them could, with more justification than the Pentagon, use as their slogan for the 1960's: "Join the NEW Army." It is possible, from the scattered evidence, to sketch a few probable years in the life of any young man who answered the call and illustrate some of Lin's favorite devices to win him over to the Maoist...