Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bust of Socrates in Vice President Agnew's office [Oct. 26] is utterly inappropriate and misleading. Socrates was a true champion of moderation and reason, a great teacher who fearlessly sought the truth regardless of self. Aristophanes, one of the men responsible for permanently silencing the voice of Socrates, is described thusly in the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Americana...
...person in mind, but a Dayton newspaper and the local machinists' union decided that she was Mrs. Bette Lowrey of suburban Fairborn. In an article about her in LIFE, she declared herself deeply troubled about drugs, violence and other "social issues," but she was not sure that the Agnew line provided the answer...
...Trials will only be fair when people like Mitchell, Wilson, Nixon, and Agnew are in the dock instead of Bobby and Erika...
...less and less surprised by what is said behind our backs. My temptation is to lash out against von Stade personally, but I feel that this must be resisted by all of us, in view of the very frustrating realization that his letter is no more than a candid, Agnew-like expression of the Harvard administration's view of women. Unfortunately, he is not an aberration in the Harvard hierarchy. Although I was amazed by the explicitness of his male chauvinist remarks, I realize that his statements must indeed be similar to those held by the rest of the administration...
...bound to swing many House and Senate races this week and will heavily influence the decisions of the 92nd Congress. Throughout the campaign, both parties assiduously courted the blue collar vote, and many candidates even donned that new symbol of rock-ribbed Americanism, the hard hat. Vice President Spiro Agnew appealed to the workers' fears of crime, drugs and bombings, and to their suspicion of intellectuals. After President Nixon had A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany in for a cozy chat "to discuss foreign policy," Republicans made good use of pictures of the meeting around workingmen's neighborhoods. (Feeling that...