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...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...
Simplistic Solutions. Agnew's blunderbuss assaults on "radical liberals" have infuriated thoughtful moderates. New York's Mayor John Lindsay, who split with his party to back Democrat Arthur Goldberg against Nelson Rockefeller, observed last week that the 1970 campaign "has spread a cloud of suspicion and mistrust over our whole nation." He added: "Men with great power and high office make headlines that stir fears rather than rally hopes. They have charged that opposition to their policies somehow is an incitement to unrest and violence. That charge is incredible...
...Agnew's principal candidates for political oblivion is New York's Charles Goodell, an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam War. Last week, after finding himself trailing both Conservative James Buckley and Democrat Richard Ottinger in the New York Daily News straw poll, Goodell preempted Lassie to announce that he would stay in the race despite his poor showing and the Administration's refusal to endorse him. Sometimes, he said, a Senator "has to fight the tide-when the tide, in his opinion, is running wrong, when the frustrations of our people accumulate to lead them...
...Democrats have been hobbled in their anti-Agnew campaigning by a lack of prominent national figures not preoccupied with their own reelection, but they have answered fire on occasion. Sargent Shriver labeled Agnew "this nation's great divider," and the venerable John McCormack, who is about to retire as'Speaker of the House, recently accused the Administration of "playing on people's fears and dodging the issues." Said McCormack: "In all of my experience in campaigns, I have never witnessed such wholesale, patently contrived efforts to smear an entire party as that practiced by the Republicans...
...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...