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...overalls, doing the chores, the esthetic rebel of the '20s looks a inch the Yankee individualist he is. Once he fired a .38 over the heads of trespassers, who quickly vanished...
...Latino individualist seems ever ready to fight, or at least duel, for his sacred personal rights, the record shows that he also goes in heavily for hero worship. Since Bolívar's day, Latin Americans have tended to follow men rather than parties or principles. They call themselves Peronistas, Arnulfistas (in Panama), Ibañistas (in Chile). Most of their caudillos, their strong men, have come from the army. Currently, military men preside over eleven Latino governments. Instead of confining themselves to the job of defending their country, Latin American militarists are entrenched as "the only well-organized...
...suffering from any serious troubles? (Political? Mental? Epidemic?). 5) May I consider that during the course of the past twelve months none among you has drunk alcoholic liquor to excess? Oui? Non?" In case some might think him anti-American, Daninos explained: "I am nothing but a damned individualist who would not seek the tiniest louse on the head of the United States if they would not try to find one on mine...
With the smooth logic of a debater, Buckley states his case: 1) Yale's teaching shows no attempt to inculcate students with the twin values of Christianity and individualism; 2) Yale alumni are overwhelmingly Christian and individualist; 3) Therefore these alumni should hold off contributing to their alma mater until it sets itself right. What Yale has to do, says Buckley, is to adopt a "value orthodoxy," a rigorous system of classroom and extra-curricular indoctrination plugging his and the alumnus' views. How, asks Buckley, can alumni get their money's worth when the old school isn't teaching what...
...Buckley will return to his aims mater. The News is going to sponsor a debate between Buckley and a man who will review God and Man at Yale in a coming issue of "The Atlantic Monthly." William Buckley may be termed a her etic, a fascist, a muddled individualist or what have you. His book may accomplish nothing, but if his book does any thing, it will probably reinforce the tenents of academic freedom...