Word: buchananism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Buchanan pushed hard for Reagan to support the contras in Nicaragua, and for the President to visit the military cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, despite calls by Jewish groups for Reagan to cancel the visit because of the presence of Waffen SS graves. Buchanan's outspokenness on the subject caused his star to fall, and he left the Administration in 1987, flirting with the idea of running his own insurrectionary campaign for the White House. He got into hot water again with Jewish groups in 1990 after he questioned President Bush's motives in the Persian Gulf War. "There are only...
Back at the Opera House, Buchanan does not so much feel the audience's pain as sense its anger. Pat's army of the aggrieved assumes that he's against whatever they're against. They listen with radiant, upturned faces. "We can make America the great and good country we grew up in," he says with vibrato in his hoarse and weary voice. Buchanan has mastered the actor's trick of reciting the same lines but giving them a different emphasis each night. When he finishes, there is a collective hush before the audience rises to its feet in applause...
...chaplain's charge went against the Geneva Convention, but not against his own nature. Pat Buchanan and I had known Father McGonigal at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., in the mid-'50s, when McGonigal was the prefect of discipline there. McGonigal looked like a fire hydrant cased in a black cassock--short and squat, with iron muscle bulges. He radiated punitive rage. One morning he hammered a boy to the classroom floor with his fists and left him there with a concussion, the other boys too terrified to intervene. The Jesuits shipped McGonigal off to southern Maryland...
...Buchanan was Gonzaga class of '56. I suspect that Pat's character is configured like a tree trunk, in a series of concentric rings--that his huge family and his autocratic, combative father formed the core, and that the crucial second ring, shaped in adolescence, was raw, authoritarian Gonzaga, which educated his father and then, in turn, each of the seven Buchanan brothers...
...were an elite, as the Jesuits were. An elite, but dispossessed: grievance vibrated through Gonzaga like electricity; I felt that same vibration, after all these years, in Buchanan's voice in Iowa and New Hampshire--outrage and a warning of violence...