Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power is an unaccustomed blessing for N.R. The fiesty little journal of opinion has spent most of its 25 years on the edge of financial collapse, making up each year's deficits -some as high as $500,000 -with regular eleventh-hour fund appeals and occasional subventions from Buckley. Yet the staff of 45, which operates out of rumpled Manhattan offices whose walls are plastered with Reagan stickers, is beginning to joke about being "an Establishment organ...
...Buckley, now 55, founded the magazine in 1955, shortly after his God and Man at Yale was a controversial hit, with $450,000 raised from some 80 contributors, including his father. National Review had an initial circulation of 2,700, which grew to 10,000 the first year...
Armed with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of Latinisms, literary allusions and intricate analogies, the pugnaciously polysyllabic Buckley wrote almost half the magazine himself in those early days. He also sought out aspiring young writers, not all of them conservatives. New Yorker Writer Renata Adler published some of her first articles for N.R., as did Novelist Joan Didion, Syndicated Columnist Garry Wills and New York Times Critic John Leonard. Says Leonard, hired...
...Buckley didn't care whether you had a reputation if he liked the way you wrote...
From the beginning, Buckley's urbane and often sarcastic journal has reflected his blend of libertarianism, orthodox Catholicism and unwavering conservatism. N.R. has consistently opposed Communism, detente and wage-price controls, while supporting increased defense spending and the deregulation of virtually everything. Recent articles have scoffed at equal opportunity laws, asked why sex education, but not prayer, is allowed in public schools, urged the Republican Party to stand by its tough campaign plank on judicial appointments. Though N.R. is hardly one of the handsomest magazines around, it does exhibit a rare appreciation for the power and variety of language...