Word: spiros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allows for some pretty good journalism to get lost." More importantly he contends that the selection group is too narrowly based to encompass all that is new and vital in journalism. For the sake of diversity he would add such nonjournalists as Jesse Jackson, Saul Alinsky, Daniel Berrigan and Spiro Agnew...
Safire published a second edition so quickly because of the bounteous contributions of President Nixon and that empyreal employer of epigram, Spiro Agnew. Since the language of politics is essentially the lexicon of propaganda, the tone of the Nixonisms reflects what are perceived to be the shifting moods and needs of the nation. Thus, Safire observes, the Great Unwashed is undesirable, while the Silent Majority is praiseworthy. Nixon's critics, says Safire, have manufactured their own verbal ammunition, such as Nixonomics and Southern Strategy...
WHITE KNIGHT: THE RISE OF SPIRO AGNEW...
...hands of the Spiro Agnew watches move on, a dated joke. The man-no joke-moves on too. In 31 years he has advanced from "Spiro who?" to the most famous Vice President in U.S. history-but he is still an enigma...
Exactly who is Spiro Theodore Agnew and why is he saying all those terrible things about radic-libs? Jules Witcover, Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, addresses himself to these questions like a good newspaperman: patiently, in detail. His trusting assumption is that if a biographer provides a reader with a politician's record, he is finally giving...