Word: spiros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said she would cooperate in an effort to undermine the livelihood, the daily bread, of people who have fed her at her convenience for the last four years, simply because she is a "liberal economist." The anti-Crimson mood, and its representatives like Peter Keyes '78, reminds me of Spiro Agnew's diatribes against the left-wing bias of the "Eastern Establishment" press a couple of years ago. I hope the Crimson's commitment to critical reporting continues after the departure of this year's Editorial Board. Keep up the good work! Jon Jacobs...
...SPIRO T. AGNEW...
...Novelist Spiro Theodore Agnew did not have Watergate to kick around. Earlier, more mundane transgressions forced his retirement from the vice presidency. He was already busy building a new career as an international businessman when the lives of his former Government colleagues started to fall dramatically apart. The Canfield Decision is about the destruction of a promising political career in 1983, but basically it is an old cold war horse of a novel, reminiscent of the bestsellers of the '50s and early...
...reader's first impression might be that The Canfield Decision was acquired during a break-in at Allen Drury's apartment. But in fact Spiro Agnew writes better-if, as he insists, "I have unequivocally written all the novel myself." He has even offered $25,000 to New York Post Columnist Harriet Van Home if she can prove her suspicion that he did not write the book. In any event, the novel's action-which includes brutal multiple murders and an anticlimactic missile crisis-has less energy than the rancorous opinions that stream from the mouths...
...formerly Vice President of the United States," says the dust jacket on The Canfield Decision, offering the most succinct description possible of the novel's author. And he was formerly the nattering nemesis of network television as well. Now neither, Spiro Agnew has been all but inescapable in TV studios lately as he tapes interviews with Dinah Shore, Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas -not as an erstwhile politician, but as a self-promoter of his book about a liberal-leaning Vice President with eyes for the top job. "The real driving need to write The Canfield Decision was making...