Word: sloganism
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...such citizens, this was a disheartening campaign. Sometimes it seemed as though the Republicans had nothing to cheer but fear itself (to twist a long-forgotten F.D.R. slogan), and the Democrats were leaderless and without easily focused issues. But if it was not the best of campaigns, it was probably not the worst, either. For all the obfuscations and invective, despite widely reported apathy, the voters were conscious of having the last word. On the morning after, the U.S. could only hope that soon the smears would fade, the hot words cool, the politics of accommodation resume. Besides...
...campaign on a slogan 'the people's councillor,'" Vellucci said. "I never voted against a housing project. I fought to bring the milk price down to one cent per bottle." In 1964, "we destroyed the urban renewal program. Six million dollars went down the drain because we opposed the Federal bulldozer. With the same breath, we proposed a resolution to create the Wellington-Harrison Citizens Committee," to give the local residents the opportunity to plan urban renewal projects. One fight Vellucci did lose, however, was to keep NASA out of Cambridge. The prediction he made about NASA...
...intellectual guerrilla warfare" against the bourgeoisie. One of Le Gai Savoir's last images is a book cover reading Bertolt Brecht- from Rimbaud to Lenin, that is, from scatological to revolutionary. Attacks on bourgeois thought cannot limit themselves to "politics" narrowly defined; epater la bourgeoisie is a political slogan. The censorship of "obscenity" is thus a bourgeois device to restrict free thought. Everything could be discussed under a language that is really free...
...from a district which had not elected a Democrat in 76 years. Harrington defeated State Senator Bill Saltonstall, heir of a political dynasty, by stressing the Vietnam and military spending issues, by tying Saltonstall to the Nixon Administration and by picturing himself as a gut fighter, with the slogan: "He has the guts to do what's right...
...Twelfth District, Gerry Studds, Eugene McCarthy's coordinator in the New Hampshire primary, is running against conservative Republican Hastings Keith. Studds ran a strong primary campaign, winning more than his three opponents combined. He is using with considerable effectiveness in Democratic New Bedford the slogan "Send a Democrat to Congress. Send Studds" in the southern part of the district. And he is campaigning hard in the northern part of the district where his strong stand aganist the war and military spending is effective...