Word: sloganized
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...methods that centered on an emotional quick-fix--surfaced. From the outset their comforts were saccharine, but satisfying, palliatives. For the first time, America was united in common activities, tastes, and beliefs, though no one derived any real benefit at all. Half-mockingly, Trow pinpoints the appearance of the slogan, "I Like Ike," as the moment of change in history...
What really galls the Poles this time is that they have defeated themselves-temporarily, of course. The nation that secretly derided the people of Czechoslovakia for offering no resistance in 1968 must now admit that it has not lived up to that brave slogan so often heard since August 1980: "It is better to die standing than to live on your knees...
...policy issues like El Salvador. All the traditional methods will have some effect; grass roots mobilization, so effectively achieved in the last two years by opponents of nuclear weaponry; intimidating of the Democratic Party into steadfast support of a strong human rights posture; and marches and sit-ins and slogan changing. But at best that will not be enough to do more than change policy as it regards El Salvador. It will not change the basis of our oppressive international rule...
...through around 1900, wooded slopes and crags were incidental: the capitalists came to burrow and cart away endless tons of coal, which they're still doing today. The Tug Fork Valley, boosters chime, is THE HEART OF THE BILLION DOLLAR COAL FIELD. But hidden behind that bluff, commercial slogan is a different kind of past-peculiar and unsavory and murderous. This valley is the home turf of the Hatfields and the McCoys, whose family war a century ago became freakish folk legend, even as it was being fought...
Which is excuse enough--if an excuse is needed--for the new, slogan-filled way that Nicaraguans have of talking. It is their badge of victory. And if the 11-year-old literacy teacher sometimes sounds a little like a hawker of socialist newspapers in the Square, listen on, for he has much more to day. In the midst of one reading lesson, the topic, of course, the revolution, he looks up and says, "It is really evil for people to bomb their own countries...