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...extent. But the magazine's chief offense is not crudity, but irreverence. The Left, both liberal and radical, bickers endlessly about how best to score points for Democracy and Progress. The Right, both conservative and lunatic, takes a glum sort of satisfaction in staging hopeless goal line stands. But Buckley and his legions just sit in the stands and snicker, maliciously...
...news and dismiss what is distasteful to them. Now they give equal space to varying shades of opinion. The editorial pages not only support Democratic Senator Carl Hayden as well as Republican Senator Paul Fannin; they also balance liberal columnists, such as Walter Lippmann, against conservatives, such as William Buckley. Morale was once so low that innumerable staffers quit in disgust, and many were fired. Now, Pulliam runs a happy shop. "We are all Pulliam's babies," says one veteran staffer, actually brushing away a tear...
...advance guard of new columnists began to appear a few years ago when Bill Buckley, 40, and Barry Goldwater, 56, took up their positions as spokesmen for the right, while Michael Harrington, 37, author of The Other America, moved in on the left, and the team of Rowland Evans and Robert Novak took up a position resolutely in the middle. In recent weeks, though, a fresh and eager file of other newspapermen and women, as well as public figures, have decided to try their hands at columns. A sampling...
...political candidate, you're a political kamikaze. You're a Goldwater who did it on purpose." Just how popular that sort of activity makes a man, Goldwater had little doubt. "I had an interesting dream last night. The scene was Johnson City, Texas, and Bill Buckley was moving into a brand-new house. Across the highway Lyndon was nudging Lady Bird and saying: 'Well, there goes the neighborhood...
...fact that Buckley had not done exactly what he wanted, which was to bring about the defeat of John Lindsay, was too obvious to overlook. "As a political kingmaker," Goldwater added, "you're a wrong-way Corrigan...