Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feeling that America may go downhill, like past civilizations, because of a failure of nerve and will. "They turned away from greatness. They grew soft. They did not welcome the opportunity to continue to lead." The partisan duties of the evening were handed, as usual, to Vice President Agnew, who told a story about how the Democratic presidential hopefuls went to Miami, where they got lost and wound up in Disney World. "They really put a new look on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," said Agnew. "Now they are known as Grumpy, Sneezy, Dopey, Hubie, Lindsay, Muskie and Teddy...
...Sign. "We look forward," Agnew said on one occasion, "to seeing the many improvements that are taking place here in health, education, electrification"-improvements that are real enough, though at certain cost. Elsewhere he spoke of "the achievements that are going forward under the present Greek government." Finally, in exchanging toasts at a dinner in Athens, both Agnew and Papadopoulos spoke scornfully of "sophists." Such men, said the Greek Premier, "jeopardize the effort made in defending our civilization...
...Before Agnew flew home at the weekend, Papadopoulos' spokesmen let it be known that Nixon would prevent any cutoff in aid, and that there had been no unseemly discussion of Greece's "internal political situation." Vice-presidential aides said in private that the Greek version was mistaken, but Agnew himself told accompanying newsmen that continued military aid to Greece is "a matter of overriding importance to the U.S." He also assured them that Papadopoulos "intends to return his country to representative government." There was no clear sign when that day would come, however, or that Spiro Agnew...
...Basically a twelve-projector magic-lantern show, Television Environment flashes freeze frames of evocative TV vignettes round the walls of the gallery: Arlene Francis blindfolded. A masked Lone Ranger. Premier Kosygin. Indistinguishable beauty contest winners. Teddy Kennedy delivering his Chappaquiddick apologia. Truth or Consequences. David Susskind. Moon shots. Spiro Agnew cooking linguini with Dinah Shore. Mr. Ed. Fulton Sheen. A sportscast logo. Truman Capote. General Westmoreland with Ed Sullivan. Perry Como. U Thant, Joe Namath, and so on, for a total of 1,000 slides that are continuously seen on the walls from museum opening to closing. Simultaneously, four...
...chronicle a full year of TV not only from in front of the set, but from behind it, at the corner offices of the networks. He did so in 1970, which, to be sure, was not an average year. It was a period of attacks by Vice President Agnew, of diminishing revenue from cigarette advertising, of unusual audience volatility. The result of Brown's endeavors is the sanest-and the saddest-book ever written about television...