Word: sloganism
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...Juan Cordova was a measure of the disillusionment Castillo Armas has given his admirers of two years ago. Far from the hoped-for new era of democracy, Guatemala is slipping fast toward a dictatorship that gives reason for opposition from all quarters, then crushes its opponents under the slogan of antiCommunism...
...official program of the Republican National Convention was on the presses. "Peace, Progress, Prosperity" read the slogan on the cover; "Unity" read the label near the top. The illustration: a photograph that at first glance looked like unity, all right. It was a famed sculpture by France's Auguste (The Thinker) Rodin (1840-1917), showing three muscular men, their lowered heads together, their arms and bodies touching one another with fluid force. They were also nude...
...either name, the Times (slogan: "All the News Without Fear or Favor") is a shining postwar example for the free press in a country which, with 143 dailies, gets a heavy diet of sob stories and sensationalism. The eight-page Japan Times conscientiously buries trivia, tries painstakingly to cover the news in depth...
...posters plastered on sun-warmed walls all over Italy, bat-winged devils erupted from a walled town above the Christian Democratic slogan: "Liberate our communes from the trustees of Moscow!" For the first time in four years, Italy's 7,143 communes are electing new governments next Sunday. Though only municipal elections, they will be read as a political referendum on Premier Antonio Segni's year-old Christian Democratic government. Italy's biggest political guns, from Segni himself to the Communists' Palmiro Togliatti, scoured the country orating...
...Hearst's King Features Syndicate). Honest Ave Harriman got ready to swing west on a dozen-stop speechmaking tour through seven states. Warming up before he took off, Harriman stepped before the convention of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union in Atlantic City and created his own slogan to succeed "New Deal" and "Fair Deal." What the U.S. needs to move forward from the Roosevelt-Truman era, he said, is a program based on "New Vision...