Word: amiri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS BIT of self-conscious irony is found almost two thirds of the way through Spiro Agnew's first venture into written fiction (we're not counting spoken or historical fiction). Sirana is Sirana Amiri, the "lush" "beautiful" "lovely" Iranian secret agent sent to fool the "hero." The "hero" is Zack Miller, the intellectual from NYU and personal adviser to Vice President Newton Canfield...
...novel that is more than just popular fiction. Through his most intelligent, honest, noble characters he is trying to say that the situation he has created rises above the mundane, ordinary plot concoctions of pop novels. If the language doesn't clue you in, that fact that Zack and Amiri fall deeply and irrevocably in love in no time flat, and that this passage is an example of their wittiest repartee should tell you that Agnew's implied claim isn't quite true...
...stabbings occurred during the forum when fighting broke out between NCLC members and people identified by the Cambridge Police as members of De Mau Mau, a black Vietnam veterans group. The NCLC has called the forum to present what it claimed was evidence that Imamu Amiri Baraka, the black poet and political leader who is also known as Leroi Jones, was an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...more law-and-order in the ghetto; separatists anxious to set aside part of the South as a new black nation and integrationists pushing for open housing and busing. The result was a platform with more than 70 separate items, cajoled and gaveled past the delegates by Imamu Amiri Baraka, the Newark black nationalist leader and poet once known as LeRoi Jones. Among the major points on the partly sensible, largely Utopian agenda...
...meetings have been quiet, some of them almost secret. The participants have included virtually every important black leader in the U.S., among them Julian Bond, Carl Stokes, Charles Evers, Jesse Jackson, Poet Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and the 13 members of the black caucus in Congress. The purpose: to develop a black political strategy for 1972, especially in order to influence the selection of a Democratic presidential nominee. But after more than half a dozen meetings-most recently a full-scale conference of black elected officials held in Washington -that strategy is still to be defined...