Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deadly Slogan. Henry Styles Bridges (he dropped the "Henry" years ago in order to avoid confusion with the West Coast's Red-lining longshoremen's labor boss, Harry Bridges) was only nine when his father, a Maine farmer and storekeeper, died. "Upon my father's death," Bridges once said, "I worked the farm and met the responsibilities of manhood through my youth." At the University of Maine he earned his board and tuition by milking cows at the agricultural college; later he helped send a younger sister and brother through college. In 1920 he moved...
...simple workshops to make canvas shoes, coarse paper or cotton cloth, and to primitive blast furnaces to make pig iron out of low-grade local ore. Across the land, fires from the 2,000,000 tiny "backyard furnaces" lit the night sky. "Everything into the pot!" was the kanpu slogan. The communes put up their own money to buy equipment for new mines, factories, furnaces. Foreign visitors saw cotton gins made of boxes and old boards, textile machinery with wooden parts. In Sinkiang, when they ran out of steel for a pipeline, it was finished with bamboo tubing. A Honan...
...point where the double rows of barbed wire run parallel to the West German Autobahn, the East Germans have built a huge billboard on their side of the line, on which is drawn a likeness of the great German writer and the slogan: "Anti-bolshevism is the underlying madness of the 20th century. - Thomas Mann...
...slogan of the moment is 'Atlantic Community,'" said Max Beloff last night, beginning his discussion of "New Thoughts on the Atlantic Community." "But it's other people's thoughts that I really want to talk about...
...current internal political tension in Cuba. For while Fidel Castro proclaims himself a loyal disciple of Lenin, and dispatches 3,000 Cuban agricultural students to Soviet state farms rather than Chinese communes, Cuban anti-U.S. propaganda sounds more like Peking than Moscow, has never used Khrushchev's slogan of "peaceful coexistence." In any showdown inside the Communist bloc, Peking-style slogans would be no match for Cuba's economic dependence on the Soviet Union. So far, Castro has managed to remain friendly with both Communist titans, but if Khrushchev decides he must force a choice, the resulting...