Word: sloganism
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...Nixon for Senators' wives, the topic was discussed in muted voices, for the Watergate conspirators had sabotaged several Democratic Senators' presidential campaigns. Comedians performing in the capital were egged on to do Watergate routines. Audiences hooted at a parody of Nixon's re-election slogan: "Four more years-with two off for good behavior." More ominously, there was open speculation, in print as well as in conversation, about the President's being impeached or having to resign. Even Nixon's bitterest foes dreaded the prospect, if only because it would mean President Spiro Agnew. Congressman...
...rounds of the play-offs with a sizzling average of 24 points a game. Stop him they did in the first game, holding Frazier to 12 points as they outlasted the New Yorkers 115-112. But the Knicks have made a religion out of the old locker-room slogan "There is no I in TEAMWORK." As Knick Captain Willis Reed pointed out: "Any guy might do it for us-the fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth...
...over a meeting of young German Socialists at Hannover-Linden and a student gathering at Vincennes University on the outskirts of Paris. The name is scrawled on buildings and walls from Norway to Sicily, sometimes in elaborate quotations but most often only in simple graffiti. "Viva Marx!" says a slogan scribbled on a building near the University of Barcelona. More than a thousand miles away on a gray stucco wall in West Berlin, a splash of whitewash exults: "Marx lebt [Marx lives...
...pockets of discontent that have been neglected by both the Gaullist regime and the establishment left. A variety of Marxist fronts-Trotskyites, Jean-Claude Navatte's Marxist-evangelist Christian Student Youth organization-helped transform hundreds of France's often-bored secondary-school students into a politically conscious, slogan-chanting pressure group powerful enough to put the government on the defensive and to force it to resubmit a controversial new draft law to the legislature (TIME, April 16). Radicals have also been marketing their "Marxist humanism" up and down factory assembly lines in Paris and other cities...
...among thinking men, especially devoted thinking men, in a crisis situation. They will often clash head-on because of a common devotion." Arrupe presides over a sometimes chaotic variety of individuals, whose special Jesuit intensity, a quality of the breed, often gives them individualistic interpretations of the society's slogan, Ad maiorem Dei gloriam (To the greater glory of God). Some examples...