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...story was written by Senior Writer Lance Morrow, whose distinctive TIME Essays have attracted something of a following among readers. Columnist William F. Buckley has described Morrow's style as a blend of "pyrotechnics and lyricism." Says Senior Editor Otto Friedrich, who edited this week's story...
...Spring at Vassar is traditionally lively," began the apologetic letter from Vassar President Virginia B. Smith to National Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr. Lively was certainly one way to describe the campus hubbub Smith was describing. It had followed the choice of Buckley, husband and brother of Vassar alum nae, as the 116th commencement speaker...
...invitation supposedly was by vote of the senior class, but only 37% had actually voted. No sooner was the choice announced than 301 of 560 graduating seniors demanded Buckley's rejection, citing his un-Vassarish views on everything from nuclear power to black power, from Viet Nam to homosexuality...
Last week Buckley told Smith he would not appear and treated Vassar and the class of '80 to some vintage scorn. An American literature professor at the college, for instance, had decried Buckley's involvement in the McCarthy era thus: "It was Buckley who offered pridefully in those days the cast of mind and insinuating attitudes toward academia which intellectually veneered the crudities of Joe McCarthy, and in so doing, fueled 'McCarthyism' at its most virulent pitch with respect to the academic community." Buckley snapped that such a man should be studying English not teaching...
...When Buckley chaired the Yale debate team 30 years ago, he always won. But in his last round in 1950, the orator lost to Harvard after The Crimson coached the Harvard team by providing it with Crimson files. The subject: academic freedom...