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...deliberately established himself as a completely subjective reporter. The Post has given him carte blanche to go anywhere and write anything, and three times a week the results go off resoundingly. For Von Hoffman has style; his literate wit and uncompromising outlook make him a sort of William F. Buckley of the New Left...
Make no mistake about it, David Frye is a master impressionist who has what it takes these days: Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, William F. Buckley, George Wallace and Nelson Rockefeller. In the world of impressions and mimicry, where a good line is usually the shortest distance between Jimmy Stewart and Gregory Peck, Frye bobs and weaves among the political heavyweights armed with perfect pitch and deadly accuracy...
...fewer hands. You can take a compass with a one-mile radius and put it down at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 51st Street in Manhattan and you have control of 95% of the entire opinion-and influence-making in the U.S." On William F. Buckley's TV program, Firing Line, White suggested breaking up the networks. "Let's say we can rear back and pass a miracle bill. We would say only one national network can have its headquarters in New York City, one must be in Los Angeles and one must be in Chicago...
...English," writes Author Ann Pinchot. "this is how he learned to perfect and polish the eloquence and clarity for which he is now known." Alas, it is precisely his prose style that frightens off so many, including some who are sympathetic to his basic message. Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., while concurring in Agnew's description of an "effete corps of impudent snobs," felt impelled to deliver an explication de texte: "The rhetorical arrangement is extremely unsatisfactory," wrote Buckley. "The word 'snob' should rarely be preceded by an adjective. An 'effete corps' has its stresses wrong, which is itself distracting...
Monday, November 3 NET JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "The Conservative Mr. Buckley." What William F. Buckley Jr. is all about, as seen through a series of his film statements on crime, the ghetto, capital punishment, patriotism, Communism and the arts...