BRAYINGS FROM THE LEFT
Jackasses, Assorted
Brayinds from the Lert "Whom the gods destroy they first make mad." -Euripedes WASHINGTON POST Psychiatric report from the eminent journal of psychiatry and palmistry the Washington Post: There...
...Agnew's...
...His Cleveland denunciation of Averell Harriman, Mayor Lindsay and six others as addicts of "American defeat" marks a' crescendo of vibration...
...Agnew's level of attack, it means he is a fellow who is addicted to the use of big words...
...We wonder, , though, if he can rise to the heights...
...He is a divisive damaging influence on the people of this country...
...The Vice President is beginning to appear to more and more people as a man given to wild statements...
...NEW REPUBLIC As he totters off into harmless dotage Gerald W. Johnson confuses history with anthropology to blubber this splendid absurdity: He (Vice President Agnew) is a relic of early nineteenth century federalism, not of the John Adams type, but of the Timothy Pickering-Hartford Convention type...
...He has the grace of a drill sergeant and the understanding of a 19th century prison camp warden...
...Agnew's competiton at the Washington Post: A gratuitous clop...a page from Vice President Agnew's copybook...campus unrest is simply being fanned and exploited by the Administration...Hate the dissidents, excoriate the 'bums,' see if you can match Mr...
...PETE HAMILL, NEW YORK POST A clearly reasoned argument uttered by the Aristotle of our age: When you call campus dissenters "bums," as Nixon did the other day, you should not be surprised when they are shot through the head and chest by National Guardsmen...
...Nixon is as responsible for the Kent State slaughter as he and the rest of his bloodless gang of corporation men were for the anti-integration violence in Lamar, and for the pillage and murder that is taking place in the name of democracy in Cambodia...At Kent State, two boys and two girls were shot to death by men unleashed by a President's NEW YORK TIMES A flabbergasted report to Yahooland from the celestial New York Times: He (Lucifer Agnew) lambasted the nation's youth in sweeping and ignorant generalizations, when it is clear to all perceptive observers that American youth today is far more imbued with idealism, a sense of service and a deep humanitarianism than any generation including Mr...
...HUGH SIDNEY A distinguished oracle laments on what America is coming to when the Vice President attracts more headlines than the Viet Cong: For weeks now Agnew, more than Abbie Hoffman or William Kunstler, has dominated the headlines with a torrent of abuse that served mainly to call attention to all that is bad in our society...
...and, as she later recorded: The President's...TV presentation of this decision was, moreover maudlin, crafty and stained by fulsome sentiments...
...1 concern it ought to be: Suspend Classes and Educate the Country.ern it ought to be: Suspend Classes and Educate the Country...
...Well, maybe his bos* will give him lessons...
...of Dean Acheson's "college of cowardly Communist coft-tainment...
...He is un- dercutting the whole possibility for a unified American people...
...NEW YORK TIMES Vice-Presidents are tobe seen and not heard, as explicated by the Brahmin demagogues of the New York Times: When with abrasive phrases, the Vice President focuses his bitter attack on those who oppose the Administration's present policy in Vietnam he is only exacerbating the divisions in this country, and making a mockery of the President's evidently forgotten pleas for reasoned discourse among the great majority of derate, patriotic, but most Americans...
...LAURENCE O'BRIEN Dr...
...Agnew in hurling names at them...
...What about Hitler's...
...STONE'S BI-WEEKLY Splendid prose from renowned Biblical scholar, Dr...
...NEW REPUBLIC A charming specimen from the geniuses who worry most about "polarization": But we will say that we think Spiro is revving up fine (sic) and will be off the runway any day now like an old Ford tri-motor, if he doesn't shake off a wing first (sic...
...UTION of the Liberals urge upon the beastly Mr...
...Stone: The race is on between profest and disaster....The only hope is that the students can create such a Plague for Peace, swarming like locusts into the halls of Congress, that they stop all other business and make an end to the war the No...
...He's swinging wildly, throwing the roundhouse punch...
...NEW YORK POST After a bone crushing full nelson and an Arkansas death grip, the Vice President pinned the New York Post's distinguished woman wrestler, Harriet Van Home...
...R. SARGENT SHRIVER R. Sargent Shriver, father of American virtue, finds the Vice President's behavior strangely familiar: Agnew is behaving like a drunk in a barroom brawl...
...WASHINGTON POST Combative spirit displayed by Mr...
...Laurence O'Brien reports on the scholarly pursuits of the Democratic National Committee: We have come up with a word to match the best being offered by Vice President Agnew...
...I.F...
...Agnew, we have concluded, is a sesquipedalian--and lest you think that I am stooping to Mr...
...Agnew) has done more to divide and weaken the country, perhaps, than our enemies in Hanoi have done...
...SENATOR GEORGE McGOVERN Yet another attempt to "Lower our voices from the distinguished Senator from the American steppes: ...he (Mr...
...Agnew: Honorable men ride that rocky ledge....Spiro Agnew has none of those redeeming qualities...
...Euripedes WASHINGTON POST Psychiatric report from the eminent journal of psychiatry and palmistry the Washington Post: There is something so erratie and irrational, not to say incomprehensible, about all this that you have to assume there is more to it than he (Agnew) is telling...
Vol. 4 • November 1970 • No. 1
