Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...watermelon and cheered a tap dancer at Ron Dellums' victory party in prideful put-on, as a black militant triumphed at the polls. The new Democratic Congressman from California, one of twelve blacks elected to Congress last week, offered his thanks to "my public relations expert, Spiro T. Agnew." His comment was far from gratuitous, for when the Vice President attacked Dellums as an "out-and-out radical," Agnew rattled the voters in the white liberal community of Berkeley and the black ghettos of Oakland into the voting booths. Democrat Dellums, 34, social worker and member of the Berkeley...
During an interview last week, Spock was reminded that Vice President Agnew has blamed him for the permissive attitudes that have encouraged the revolutionary tendencies of youth. "I was never permissive," Spock protested laughingly. "But I would be proud if I were responsible in a small way for youth's idealism and courage." In his new book, Spock displays a courage of his own-the courage to be conventional in an unconventional...
Choosing TV news anchor men by Nielsen ratings may seem like the next worst thing to letting Agnew do it. But last week ABC in fact picked its man through a survey, and the choice made excellent journalistic sense. The network hired away CBS's Harry Reasoner to replace Co-Anchor Man Frank Reynolds...
SerVaas adds: "The Post will represent Middle America, but not in the Agnew sense. It will be neither sophisticated nor blase." In other words, it will be what the Post is best remembered for, as Norman Rockwell put it, "kindness, sympathy, nostalgia and optimism." Rockwell, 76, has been enlisted to do the first cover of the revived Post. What the subject will be is still undecided...
Nixon and Agnew, of course, claimed victory for the Republicans, O'Brien and Muskie said the Democrats had gained. What really happened was that different races and widely separated local issues combined to produce a mish-mash of confusion which can only be called a draw...