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Suddenly things are different. Yale now wears the bell-bottoms in the Ivy League 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...
...only to observe Richard Nixon during the recent elections to see how appalling they are. The President avoided most major issues. He did not discuss inflation, unemployment, Cambodia, the Middle East, Vietnam, foreign policy in general, pollution control, civil rights, or the causes of student unrest. Rather, he and Agnew made frantic appeals around the Social Issue: promiscuity, drugs, pornography, campus unrest, "law and order." Their approach to these problems followed the book's advice when, for instance the authors suggest how to talk about student radicals...
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...