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...humorless lot. In their devotion to a special set of principles, they have rarely cultivated the art of laughter-especially at themselves. It is perhaps symptomatic of the times that today's leading U.S. ideologue of the right is celebrated for his wit. At 42, William F. Buckley Jr. is that contradiction in terms, a popular polemicist...
Daily, Bill Buckley stands at some conservative Armageddon, but not as the leader of an army or even a division. Barry Goldwater's sobersided conservatives don't understand him; Robert Welch's conspiratorial John Birchers don't trust him. He may not be able to help it, but he is too clever, too humorous, too well read, too (in the current all-purpose adjective of the liberal Establishment) "attractive." He is a solitary sniper, taking skillful shots at the Great Society, at peaceful coexisters, at the heirs and assigns of John F. Kennedy, at Lindsay-woolsey...
...been 16 years since Professional Gadfly William F. Buckley Jr., 41, wrote God and Man at Yale, and at last he has disclosed his choice for one of the parts. Buckley announced that he will run next spring as a petition candidate for the 18-man Yale Corporation, the university's governing body, in opposition to the corporation's own slate of candidates. "Somebody's got to protest the almost total absence of conservatives on the faculty," said Buckley, who ran as a Conservative for mayor of New York City in 1965. If he wins, Buckley will...
...land U.S. political figures-but often find them inaccessible too. California's Governor Ronald Reagan and New York City's Mayor John Lindsay seem to be getting, and turning down, more invitations than any other Republicans, although former Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater and Gadfly William F. Buckley Jr. are still much in demand. With the possible exception of Senators Wayne Morse and J. William Fulbright-both harsh critics of U.S. policy in Viet Nam-no Democrats are hot on the campus circuit...
...large, Reagan has borne out Rockefeller's prediction. "I campaigned in the belief that the people are the best custodians of their own affairs," Reagan said last week on William F. Buckley's TV show, Firing Line. But he has learned quickly that it is not easy for the state to return custody of many affairs. As a result, he was forced to levy the biggest one-shot tax increase in the history of any state ($933 million) in order to balance the biggest state budget ever ($5.09 billion...