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...scholarly monthly journal. At the time of his murder, he was composing a treatise on the failure of the American experiment. The reader is compelled to ask if the megalomaniacal Petrie was 1) a mere crackpot, 2) a latter-day Henry Adams or 3) a pernicious William F. Buckley minus the charm. The novel is slowly unraveled by three highly inflamed, profoundly disturbed minds. Each version of the events needs the other two to make literary and psychological sense...
Moynihan rivals William F. Buckley as a purveyor of grandiloquent nonsense...
...Senate. He had once said it would be "dishonorable" for him to desert the U.N. to go into politics. The pledge might be mitigated if he spent several intervening months at Harvard. Some New York Democratic leaders have suggested that he would make the strongest candidate against Republican James Buckley...
...trying to protect himself against a State Department cabal? Did he really feel threatened by Kissinger's often unflattering private comments about him? Or was Democrat Moynihan trying to get fired, thus setting the stage for a martyred resignation so he could go after Conservative Senator James Buckley's New York seat this year...
...biggest change brought about by the Buckley law is in the letters of recommendation that high school principals, teachers and guidance counselors write to colleges. Now that parents (and their lawyers) can see the records, high school officials have become more wary of writing negative letters; they fear that they will be sued. At San Rafael High School near San Francisco, some teachers now write "I won't answer this because of the Buckley law" across the letter forms. At Lee High School, in New Haven, Conn., Laura Stewart, head of the guidance department, refuses to check...