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...overriding issue. Pax has promised a second sizeable contribution to the campaign. The candidate has proven that while he may not be another H. Stuart Hughes, he cannot alternatively be classed in the Arthur Schlesinger mold. Adams has emerged from what William F. Buckley Jr. once described as "the mire of liberalism...
...Midwestern Republican, "he's from New York. Add to that his religion and his voting record, and it just wouldn't go down too well with a lot of people out here." Maybe Javits would offer the nation a new face for 1968, snorted arch-Conservative William F. Buckley Jr.?but "so would Mario Savio." Exclaims a Senate colleague: "Preposterous...
...Buckley indulges in such gibes because he thinks the program openings need "gingering." At least twice so far his visitors have taken offense. David Susskind never recovered from Buckley's introduction of him as "a staunch liberal-if there were a contest for the title Mr. Eleanor Roosevelt, he would unquestionably win it." Norman Thomas got rankled after Buckley began, "If I were asked what has been his specialty in the course of a long career, I guess I would say, 'Being wrong.' " Buckley did feel a little regretful about those programs, and has tried to keep...
Patent Sophistry. But competing with Buckley becomes more difficult with each week that he is on-camera. To his peerless rhetoric he is now adding increasingly polished stage business. Just before he delivers a cruncher, his tongue licks from the corner of his mouth, his patrician voice rasps into a lower register. Similarly, the elevation of his eyebrows telegraphs the drop of a guillotine blade. Another Buckley tactic-when the antagonist has the floor-is to close his eyes, as if he is hearing insufferable platitudes, or to raise them heavenward, as if to invoke Aquinas against such patent sophistry...
Understandably, Buckley has trouble finding targets. Kenneth Galbraith and Jackie Robinson declined on the grounds that the honorarium, $320, was insufficient. Senator William Fulbright didn't even reply to his invitation, and both Bobby and Teddy Kennedy begged off (TIME, April 8). A shortage of guests is the only thing that could stop Firing Line from running forever. That wouldn't necessarily put Buckley out of show business. Last week, after taping a program on the U.S. theater, his guest, David Merrick, offered him a Broadway part. Buckley declined. He is his own best producer...