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Suddenly things are different. Yale now wears the bell-bottoms in the Ivy Lague family. Their president gets attacked by Spiro Agnew. Their Classics Professor Erich Segal writes a "novel" about Youth Romance Today" ("Jen ... what would you say if I told you ... I think ... I'm in love with you." "I would say ... you were full of shit." The ellipses are his.) which clings moistly to the top of the bestseller lists, bringing lumpen to the throats of the proletariat (because a baker's daughter can marry a banker's son, even if she dies forthwith) while Harvard classicists...
...much as one can tell from the available autobiographies, Harvard '21 does not seem all that different politically from most Harvard classes, at least until recent years. There are some who shout approval for Agnew and hatred for long-haired "liberals," but most of those who state political beliefs state progressive ones...
...months before last week's confrontation, Vice President Agnew had traveled around the U.S. drumming up support for the measure, while Mills went cross-country to denounce it before half a dozen state legislatures. Now that the battle was finally joined on Capitol Hill, the amicable charade was quickly ended. Connally had no sooner finished his 15-minute presentation in favor of the bill than Chairman Mills showed his hand. "I want to congratulate you," he told Connally, "for making a very fine statement in behalf of a very weak cause." The other members of the committee then proceeded...
...professor meant well. Morris Forkosch of the Brooklyn Law School was defending the press against attacks from Spiro Agnew, among others, and urging journalists not to take these assaults lying down. The issue, said Forkosch, would be decided by "the information media, by how it fights back...
...Jean-Paul Sartre didn't say that, and it certainly wasn't Spiro T. Agnew. It was Dick Cavett. There is something curious about a $15,000-a-week entertainer who is afflicted with Weltschmerz instead of narcissism. Gloomily, he keeps wondering how it has come to pass that he is a big TV star? What's he doing there anyway...