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George J. Callcott, 52, professor of history at the University of Maryland, on why the personal papers of former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, donated in 1974, have not been catalogued: "A majority of it is historic junk...
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 classicists...
...contains a Latin pun: cassis also means "helm.") There are not many books. Helms wants to take up reading mysteries?Dot tells him that intellectuals peruse them to relax ?but for now a Churchill biography lies on a coffee table. There are autographed portraits: President Reagan, Spiro Agnew, J. Edgar Hoover. Helms has collected dozens of figurines of elephants, but not as a hobby; most were foisted on him by friends. He has no hobbies. When he is in Raleigh, Helms never misses Pou Bailey's every-other-Thursday-night poker fest, a 35-year-old ritual. Steaks...
...valuable and joyous town. It is, after all, the home of the Orioles, the Ouija board, the softshell crab, the national anthem, the nation's first passenger railroad (the Baltimore & Ohio), Johns Hopkins Hospital and University, the Preakness, H.L. Mencken and Edgar Allan Poe (not to mention Spiro Agnew). It is also one of the last American possessors of a genuine honky-tonk district, known fondly as The Block, though even that lusty landmark has been sadly vulgarized by topless dancing and a renewal project that has largely plasticized its façade. Mencken once complained that the Baltimore harbor...
...politicians are so reckless with hyperbolic promise. (Douglas MacArthur: "I shall return,'' a wonderful item of mythic public relations.) Like the ancient kings of Mexico, they like to swear that they will cause the sun to rise, the rain to fall, the crops to grow. Spiro Agnew once told the American people: "I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets." Jimmy Carter kept fixing America with his china-blue eyes and swearing: "I will never lie to you"-a daredevil approach to his profession...