Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other literary friends. "We pretended he had always been a writer. It was a fraud. It was like the '60s, when we embraced the Black Panthers in that moment of radical chic without understanding their experience." There is another analogy from the 1960s, when Conservative Writer William F. Buckley Jr. championed the cause of a literarily gifted convicted killer, Edgar Smith, and helped set him at liberty to attempt murder again. Years later, Buckley acknowledged in an article how easily conned and naive he had been. Mailer, whose writings attest to his fascination with outlaws, has made only...
There will be a lot of pressure being the only rookie quarterback. Buckley said, adding, however, that he does not feel nervous about trying...
...Buckley said that despite his Ivy League background, he has been generally well-accepted by the other players. "They kid me a lot about it, but it's usually good natured," he said, adding "some of them are a little leery about me being from Harvard, but most of them are curious about what it was like--they are surprised when I tell them, we had no athletic scholarships and no Spring training...
...Buckley said both Grogan and Cavanaugh have helped him out in his early days with the team. He described Grogan as "a good man, but kind of hard to get to know. He's been criticized a lot lately and I thi..k that bothers...
...Buckley, who bargained with the Patriots without the help of an agent said. "I really didn't feel as though I needed an agent--I figured I'd pat my Harvard education to work and bargain by myself...