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Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett House, will take a one-year sabbatical leave from Harvard beginning this June. In his absence, Jerome H. Buckley, Professor of English, will serve as acting Master...
From the moment of his selection in December, Government officials, fellow academics and journalists have scrutinized his every move. William Buckley wrote to him: "Not since Florence Nightingale has any public figure received such universal acclamation." Senator Jacob Javits commented that Kissinger's appointment could prove to be the most significant the President has made, because "it is in foreign policy that the Nixon Administration will make its mark...
...only disastrous in himself, but the cause of disaster in others. ... He was not only a late starter; he had developed a fascination with the starting gate, and kept circling through it as if it were a revolving door." To the surprise of many readers of William F. Buckley's magazine, he was generally sympathetic to the kids in Chicago, whom he described as soft and supple. He spent days among them, and felt that their behavior was shaped by events, rather than vice versa...
Sophocles and the Colts. It was a scholarly critique of "TIME style" Wills mailed to Bill Buckley from Xavier University in 1957 that started his occasional assignments as a book reviewer for National Review. Buckley was so impressed that he invited Wills to visit him. "I expected some ancient, crusty professor-and in walked this child. It took me several gulps to think of him as having written this very authoritative piece...
Rhetorical Blight. Conservative William F. Buckley, who likes Nixon but loves style, delivered a toast in acid. To him, "the striking passages of his address had to do with the human spirit. These passages he could speak feelingly because he is the primary American exemplar of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. The astronauts never had such dark and lonely moments as Nixon had, and out of that experience he fashioned a philosophy which is essentially hopeful." Still, he found banal passages: "We are going to turn our swords into plowshares yes yes yes." Buckley also detected...