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Bruce Morton, who ends each Late Edition show with a pithy television essay on culture and politics, pokes fun this week at the fatuous use of millennial themes to sell products--from Millennium Barbie to Millennium Budweiser to M & M's, the "official candy of the millennium," and so on.
On the other hand, brevity is what gives a pithy aphorism its strength.
For a campaign song that's pithy you have to go back to 1931 and the satirical musical Of Thee I Sing , in which John P. Wintergreen campaigns for the White House with a powerful slogan ("A Vote for Wintergreen Is a Vote for Wintergreen") and a (by the Gershwins) of just four lines:
Running English proverbs and sayings through my mind, I seem to find that although our language has the resources to be fairly pithy, we are not as attracted to pithiness as Russians and Romans.
Most of these are crisp and pithy in the extreme, with an admirable precision of thought.