Word: sloganized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antithetic to Soviet society, especially if the music depicted a lonely individual. But an answering article got Shostakovich off the hook by inventing a dialectically dazzling new term. The composer, who had dedicated his work to world peace had, it appeared, really written an "optimistic tragedy." Or, as the slogan had it in Orwell's 1984, "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery...
...knowledge. It was a noble idea and a difficult task. Ironically, the Committee was afraid its scheme would no longer prove apt by 1954. Nevertheless, it adopted the ponderous phrase, "man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof" and began planning to unite the world behind this slogan...
...streets of Seoul 20,000 South Koreans gave a new and heartfelt twist to an old Communist slogan. As they watched veterans of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division embark for home, they shouted the rising chant: "Yankee, don't go home!" For the G.I.s, the occasion was a happy one, but disturbed South Koreans hung out banners proclaiming that "withdrawal of U.S. forces invites destruction...
Thus encouraged, Muskie went to work, managed to round up five good candidates for major offices-including himself and a senatorial aspirant (History "Professor Paul Fullam of Colby College) who quoted Socrates while explaining U.S. foreign policy. Using a catchy-and, for Republicans, ironic-slogan ("Maine needs a change"), Muskie made his fight on local issues. There were more than enough. Items...
...confused situation in which the American people are not being alerted to the dangers that lie ahead. Possibly it's because the Republicans think they have printed too many copies of their "peace and prosperity" slogan to adopt a new one before the congressional elections are held in November. But time is running out, and the factors of tension and explosiveness that make for sudden war are not being erased by the attitude of passivity which seems to prevail in official quarters-including Denver, where the fishing and the golfing have been pleasant-as if peace is attainable...