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...with celestial navigation, or the servants, or the phone calls from Ronald Reagan. No: his worst affront seemed to be the custom chopped-and-stretched chauffeur-driven Cadillac with the partition and the special back-seat temperature control. It was not even the fact that William F. Buckley Jr. rides around in such a car, like a Mafia don in his land yacht, that gave some reviewers eczema. It was the way that he wrote about it, with such a blithe air of entitlement. No right-wing intellectual on the go, Buckley seemed to suggest, should be asked to function...
...newly published book of tribute may ensure Lowenstein his deserved place in history. Lowenstein Acts of Courage and Belief is his story told in his own words and in those of such diverse writers as William E. Buckley Jr. Calvin Trillin, Jack Anderson, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54. A collection of articles and speeches by and about "the original activist." Acts of Courage and Belief is a moving testimony to a man who became for a time an American political legend...
William F. Buckley Jr. has called Lowenstein "the folk-here of the American board-left," but the one-term Congressman was not believed by all who desired change. He was assured, during the civil-rights movement and again in his work against the Vietnam War, by the extremes of the Left as well as Right, for his insistence on working peacefully for reform through democratic institutions. No revolutionary, he repeatedly with student activists not to take up violence as a tactic of protest. The more radical--including the SDS and the man who ended Lowenstein's life with five bullets...
...wrote Buckley, was a "hectic idealism." He dressed in windbreakers and slept in his clothes, "always on the go, a kind of hobo of lost causes." With his boundless energy, said Kennedy in 1980, and "his papers, his clothes, and seemingly his whole life jammed into briefcases, envelopes, and satchels--all of it carried with him everywhere--he was a portable and powerful lobby...
...American Council on Education, after consulting with the national association and the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, told its members last week that the "Buckley Amendment," officially known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, "specifically bars the release of the information requested." The Daily Pennsylvanian