Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard has challenged the Fates three times since the 1950s, and each time the Crimson paid dearly for its civilian hubris. In the 1980 meeting, the first since the Cold War began, the 12-point underdog Cantabs actually pulled off a 15-10 upset...and lost starting quarterback Brian Buckley to a knee injury. He was the first of four Harvard quarterbacks wounded in action...
...Buckley came out of the game midway through the fourth quarter after completing nine of 18 passes for 147 yards and dashing for a 67-yard touchdown run. On his last drive, Buckley steered his squad to the Army 16. But Harvard backed out of scoring position when Buckley got sacked for a 13-yard loss...
...Buckley's new book, Overdrive, a journal of a few days in his ridiculously overachieving life, is a funny and charming exercise. Some critics who object to Buckley's politics, however, were outraged by his lifestyle, or more accurately by the obvious pleasure with which he described it. It is all right to live that way, but one should have the grace to conceal it, or at least to sound a little guilty about it; Buckley luxuriates in his amenities a bit too much, and one hears in his prose the happy sigh of a man sinking into...
...make the accusation is to misunderstand both William F. Buckley Jr. and the nature of snobbery. Buckley is an expansive character who is almost indiscriminately democratic in the range of his friends and interests. He glows with intimidating self-assurance. The true snob sometimes has an air of pugnacious, overbearing self-satisfaction, but it is usually mere front. The snob is frequently a grand porch with no mansion attached, a Potemkin affair. The essence of snobbery is not real self-assurance but its opposite, a deep apprehension that the jungles of vulgarity are too close, that they will creep...
...probably more difficult to be a snob now than it once was. The logistical base is gone. If Buckley were one, he would have to be considered one of the last of the great Renaissance snobs, a generalist capable of insufferable expertise on everything from Spanish wines to spinnakers. But the making of such a handsomely knowledgeable, or even pseudo-knowledgeable, character requires family money and leisure of a kind not often available in the late 20th century. "A child's education," Oliver Wendell Holmes once remarked, "should begin at least one hundred years before he was born...