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Dirksen's oratory became, in the end, something of a mountebank performance. William F. Buckley Jr., on the other hand, though capable from time to time of the polysyllabic Dirksen purr, has used public speech for the most serious of intellectual purposes, as a sharply civilized weapon, an instrument of instruction and correction. This, when one is talking politics, is unusual. A protest without a program is mere sentimentality, as a political theorist wrote. Buckley's opinions have always proceeded not from emotion but from a structure of thought - agree with it or not. He appeals to the standard...
...Buckley, America's most distinctive public speaker, is giving up the lecture circuit in which he has labored for half a century. The good news is that he has just published "Let Us Talk of Many Things," a 500-page collection of his speeches. The book is a feast...
Sophomore Aaron Snead jumped 15'6 to win the pole vault. Freshman Taylor Buckley cleared the 1.85 meter bar in the fewest attempts to earn a win in the high jump...
...Bill Buckely wrote God and Man at Yale in 1951. Kelly Monroe finally answered the first half of Buckley's proposition two years ago with her Finding God at Harvard. Still unaccounted for, of course, is the state of contemporary Harvard manhood. The prolific Tom Wolfe, himself a Yale Ph.D., came to town last month just long enough to pronounce Harvard manhood dead...
...hateful rhetoric on and off to suit his purposes. Confronting hate-mongers is not the sole province of the left, accepted wisdom in Cambridge notwithstanding. Buchanan's bigotry is not a figment in the imagination of liberals: His anti-Semitic ranting has been denounced by leading conservatives like William Buckley and Norman Podhoretz...