Word: sloganism
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This week Tannen planned to celebrate WEEP's christening by playing only one record all day, Perry Como's Just Born. In picking a new name for his "general market" station, Tannen combed the dictionary before deciding that WEEP held all sorts of possibilities: "A surefire slogan: 'WEEP for joy.' I can call myself the WEEP veep; we'll have a traveling car called the WEEP jeep; and, my God, think of what we can say when we sign off: 'And now, for the next twelve hours you won't hear a peep...
Long have the men from Cayuga's waters unrestrainedly enjoyed the pleasures of wine, women and song. So long indeed, that the slogan "Freedom and Responsibility" has come to mean "Freedom from Responsibility" or "Laissez-faire" when applied to social life...
Malott told the student leaders to act fast to change the system or the faculty would change it for them. This appeal to the student body was a last, feeble call based on the old "Freedom and Responsibility" slogan: that is, the students should work out their own problems by themselves. This appeared a bit ridiculous since the validity of "Freedom and Responsibility" rests largely on the recognition by the group of its responsibility. The Cornell student body had to be told to recognize its responsibility...
...slogan endured, despite the fact that in the 29 presidential elections since 1840 it has been wrong nearly half (twelve elections) the time. Cracked Democratic Strategist Jim Farley, after Franklin Roosevelt swept 46 states in 1936: "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont...
Last week Maine laid the slogan to rest. By a vote of 63,710 to 36,065, the electorate of Maine decided to change the date of its elections. The basic reason for the old September date-the probability that hard winter weather and impassable, broken roads would keep most voters from the polls-had long since passed. Beginning in 1960, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, as the nation goes to the polls for state and congressional as well as presidential elections, so will go Maine...