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Michael Spire (guitar, amp) -- Along Brattle Street, Spiro plays three or four times a week. He writes and performs "comedy music" since "it's less boring than playing Neil Young and James Taylor songs all night." He is particularly proud of his song "Music, Sex, and Cookies," which played nationally on the Dr. Demento show...
...crusade seemed to be struggling in obscurity until he was hit with the Buchanan bombardment. The combative White House communications director responded to Cuomo first in a news conference and later in a letter to the New York Times. Wrote the publicist who used to feed Vice President Spiro Agnew some of his acid lines: "I never anticipated much in the way of decency or accuracy from the commentaries of Mario Cuomo...
...counsel draft resistance. (He was found guilty, but the conviction was overturned in 1969.) Peale, an author and politically conservative minister, denounced Spock from his pulpit and charged that the student uprisings of the time were the result of Spock's permissive advice to unwary parents. Then Vice President Spiro Agnew took up the same theme, though Spock's book is clear about setting both standards and expectations for children. Says Spock: "If parents are self-assured and nonhostile, they can be quite strict in such things as expecting more formal manners, prompt obedience and more courtesies. It doesn...
...bill backed by Reagan as part of "a series of calculated maneuvers to soften the image of Mr. Conservative into Mr. Conciliation." Buchanan has been even more suspicious of his colleagues in the press: as a White House speechwriter from 1969 to 1974, he crafted some of Vice President Spiro Agnew's most caustic attacks on the news media. In a column last year Buchanan described the nation's major news organizations as "the polemical and publicity arm of American liberalism...
...Spiro and a number of other observers find such justifications hard to accept. "Would they suggest that the world should forget the most criminal period in history?" asks Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, which helped Spiro investigate the Viennese doctor's past...