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...made a complete about-face, ending up as right-wingers. Smaller in number, they have been at least as important to conservatives as the others have been to liberal thought. Up from Communism is an examination of the intellectual evolution of four Communists who ended up at William F. Buckley's National Review, one of the nation's leading conservative periodicals...
...book has other flaws. While Diggins is capable of a sophisticated discussion of Eastman's critiques of Hegel, he is also prone to the most inane nonsense, as when he asks, "If communism ultimately brought Herberg to religion and to William Buckley, should Buckley thank Stalin for doing God's work?" What difference does it make? In his concluding chapter, "Conservative Paradoxes", Diggins remarks that "In Nixon's heralded detente with Russia and China, one sees that a politician nurtured on McCarthyism can be anti-communist without being anti-totalitarian." Is Diggins saying that Russia and China are totalitarian...
...sheets, took in $12 million in 1975. "Some people take their cue from Jackie O," he remarks, without naming Rival Halston. "I am more interested in the young American woman, and I watch her." But he does not lack for celebrated clients. Among them: Elizabeth Ashley, Mrs. William Buckley, Faye Dunaway, Alexis Smith, Mica Ertegun and Ethel Kennedy...
FICTION 1-Curtain, Christie (1 last week) 2-The Choirboys, Wambaugh (2) 3-Ragtime, Doctorow (3) 4-Saving the Queen, Buckley (4) 5-In the Beginning, Potok (5) 6-The Greek Treasure, Stone (6) 7-1876, Vidal 8-Nightwork, Show (7) 9-TheGemini Contenders, Ludlum (9) 10-Audrey Rose, DeFelitta...
...admit the success of behavior modification with autistic children and the mentally ill. But the concept of a genetically-and environmentally-programmed existence, of an a-responsible, un-free person rebounding from punishment to reward, has stuck in the craw of humanists from George Bernard Shaw to William F. Buckley, Jr. Metaphysics aside, they have argued, the sheer complexity of our experiences would preclude a valid forecast of future action...