Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protest greeted Giamatti's decision from all sides. A representative of a group called Solidarity International of Connecticut Inc. called it a "slap in the face," and criticized Giamatti for not allowing the singers to "lift a finger in support of that embattled and impoverished nation." Columnist William F. Buckley criticized Giamatti's plea that the University not speak out on political issues. "Perhaps a glee club representing a university less fastidious than Yale will...risk its reputation by siding with the men and women of Poland," he wrote in a syndicated column last week...
...religious terms, physical destruction, no matter how horrible, can never be the worst evil. It makes me shiver when it is implied that we should allow ourselves if necessary to be conquered." Others argue that the bishops are overstepping their worldly authority. Says conservative Catholic Columnist William F. Buckley: "I resent what must be viewed as a certain political opportunism. The bishops are entitled to a presumption of moral attention, but there is no presumption of their enjoying a special knowledge on these matters...
...ranging from Jeffersonian calls for states' and individuals' rights to Moral Majority attacks on feminism and abortion, and even some racist-tinged critiques of affirmative action. But the editors, diverse as they are, trade notes and have come to constitute an informal network. That delights Columnist William Buckley, a major patron of the Dartmouth Review and a hero to most of the rightist student editors. Buckley is enthusiastic: "I have for 30 years maintained that the genuine dissidents at liberal colleges are conservatives...
Skilled, or able to make up in enthusiasm what they lack in seamanship, Buckley and his band have such a good time that they are "melancholy to make their final landfall and see their voyage end." Readers can only share that sentiment as they approach the last page...
...good thing too. Atlantic High will not displace Two Years Before the Mast or Moby Dick from even the most loyal conservative's bookshelf; Buckley's voyage is a piece of cake compared with those undertaken by Richard Henry Dana Jr. or Herman Melville. The storms encountered by the chartered 71-ft. ketch Sealestial are really industrial-strength squalls; the calms are overcome by the expedient of switching on the engine. It is Buckley's crew-as fine a collection of overachievers as ever spliced the main brace-who make the trip a sentimental journey...