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Their break from Buckley scattered them, for these were extreme individualists with no convenient enemy like communism to buckle them into a cohesive group. A few, like the Chicago community at the New Individualist Review or the Colorado congregation at Rampart College focused on attacking Buckley as a detractor of real capitalism, the energies of these groups went toward purifying the New Right by reorienting its faith from anti-communism into pro-free enterprise. Two years ago Rampart College pulled up roots and moved to Santa Ana, near the heart of Southern California's infamous Orange County. Since that time...
...tourist attraction. He has become an all-purpose critic in the U.S. and beyond, jousting with as many demons as a latter-day Vishnu, the many-armed Hindu god of a thousand names. To some, he is just an all-purpose bore. "The two necessities for 1968," says one detractor, "are the defeat of Lyndon Johnson and the massive putdown of John Kenneth Galbraith. It's difficult to see which would be the more difficult...
...racist" and added, only half in jest: "I wonder to what lengths Dean Rusk has to go in order to gain support for his and Johnson's war in Viet Nam." Studs Terkel, a Chicago writer and radio commentator, had nothing against the wedding, but as an Administration detractor could not resist a crack: "L.B.J. is at work again. The next thing you know, we'll be reading that the bombing of China was led by a Negro." And a Boston psychiatrist detected L.B.J.'s heavy hand of consensus behind it all. The next Cabinet bride...
Bing Sting. The ease with which Bing pulls off this kind of frosty switch-about has left some people with a case of the shivers. One detractor described him as having "the look of a man constantly inhaling bad odors which only he can detect." When a tenor called in sick one day, Bing smelled the odor of laziness. Immediately he dispatched an ambulance and two doctors to the tenor's door. "He sang that night," recalls Bing with a wry smile, "and very well too." Some who have felt the Bing sting claim that he has a lofty...
Sixteen Stabs. Yet, to true aficionados of the world's only blood art, El Cordobés is the death of the afternoon. "He's like Chubby Checker playing Bach," sniffs one ardent detractor. "It's pop bullfighting...