Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William F. Buckley...
Cold war buffs by now should be familiar with Blackford Oakes, William F. Buckley's tony spy hero of six previous novels. The cold is something he never had to come in out of. He knows that he works for the good guys. In his latest adventure, Blacky confronts the Evil Empire, circa 1954. Stalin is dead, Georgi Malenkov sits unsurely as party chief, and the ruthless Lavrenti Beria, head of the KGB, plots his own ascension. The monolith is in transition, and the U.S. and Britain launch a secret commando raid to overthrow the Soviet- dominated government of Albania...
...avoid students in lectures and in general life, in section I am stuck face to face with them. Even worse, I have to listen to them "communicate" and "share their opinions" with me. Watching Harvard people in section is like watching Tom Snyder and Phil Donahue interviewing William Buckley, except you can't change the channel...
...experiences, with pledges of fealty by candlelight. On some campuses, Hell Week has been renamed Inspiration Week. Senior Kyle Williamson of the University of Colorado's Sigma Phi Epsilon house, which prides itself a membership of jocks and other square-shouldered types, admits that "a lot of guys cry." Buckley Gillock of Virginia speaks for generations of Greeks when he describes why he cares so deeply about being a Kappa Alpha: "It's meant making the best friends I've had so far in my life, and probably the best friends I'll ever have...
Adams House film society president Elizabeth Buckley '87 says she has resorted to pleading to encourage people to attend showings of her society's films...