Word: spiros
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...does not have to be an effete snob, a nattering nabob, or even a Democrat to be thoroughly offended by the contrived, consciously catchy mixed metaphors daily being flung at us by Spiro Agnew [Sept. 21]. One gets the impression that this buffoon is just discovering his power to appeal to people's prejudices for his own purposes. Probably Agnew has already planned his first post-V.P. book: Selected Smashing Speeches by the Sensation of the '70s. One suspects that he is also running for the title: Most Vocal and Vituperative Veep of the Century...
...Spurious Spiro, the smirking, spleenful spokesman of the sated, smug, self-satisfied society...
...Nixon Administration would handle its most rebellious Republican Senator, Charles Goodell of New York, has been one of the fall's more fascinating guessing games. Last week Spiro Agnew provided the answer: the quiet-spoken Goodell would be treated like the meanest of Democrats...
...attack the President personally during the campaign, he is presenting himself as an independent, principled Republican who will not bow to high-level pressure. His tough response to Agnew apparently reflects his belief that he can approach liberal voters with greater success if he sports an "Attacked by Spiro...
...Baby. In the Administration and on Capitol Hill, response was swift. Spiro Agnew asserted that "it's not our baby," and promised that "as long as Richard Nixon is President, Main Street is not going to turn into Smut Alley." Senator Thomas Dodd's Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency prepared to summon commission members for some sharp questioning about the panel's mandate. In the opinion of some angry Congressmen, the investigators had ignored their assigned tasks of defining obscenity and pornography, determining its effect on children, and proposing federal antismut laws. Other Congressmen began filling the hopper...