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Gibes & Rankles. Why not? The dialogue is the liveliest and most literate on the air, and for all Buckley's reputation as a slashing debater, the purpose of the hour-long weekly "colloquy" is to inform rather than to insult. And of course Buckley has an opinion about everything. Sometimes, unlikely as it seems, he is a little uncertain about his subject matter. Introducing a program with Steve Allen on capital punishment, Buckley conceded: "My own thinking on the subject is confused, which, come to think of it, should make Steve Allen feel quite at home...
This sort of mea culpa colloquy sounds at moments like a quartet of Paris cab drivers divvying up the honors from a four-way crash. But Enough Rope, despite one or two lapses in its logic, never loses its head en route to an ironic final twist...
...after defeating King Henry III at the battle of Lewes, Simon de Montfort, the ambitious French-born Earl of Leicester, summoned the barons, bishops and warrior knights of England to a national colloquy in London. To muster popular support for his cause among the new commercial classes, Montfort also took the unprecedented step of inviting each of the young nation's townships to send "two of their more discreet, lawful and trustworthy citizens or burgesses." By thus giving commoners a voice in government for the first time, Montfort, as Winston Churchill wrote, "lighted a fire never to be quenched...
...sessions generally begin with two-minute accountings from each of the undergraduate's half a dozen tutors, and go on to five minutes of rebuttal by the student and other colloquy on his problems. Several years ago, during what was perhaps the longest-playing ragtime on record, the chairman, after 90-odd minutes, suggested that perhaps the undergraduate was beyond salvation. "A student reflects his tutors," the boy replied, leaving the room-and the college...
Other speakers during the colloquy will include Professor Paul A. Weiss of the Rockefeller Institute, Professor Samuel A. Goudsmit of the Brookhaven National Laboratories, Professor Francis O. Schmitt of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Professor Harold G. Cassidy of Yale...