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...professor of social and moral science at the University of Chicago and author of The Road to Serfdom. Hayek, a convincing conservative, argued against the progressive income tax, warned that a controlled economy and the modern trends of social legislation would lead to collectivism and ultimately to totalitarianism. Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind, with its cogent arguments against a planned society, similarly stirred Goldwater's conservative passions. In 1957 he decided to make an all-out break with the Eisenhower moderates...
From the start, National Review's polemic spirit, bolstered by its editor's intellectual bravura, was a rallying point for those who subscribed to the Buckley brand of "radical conservatism." In its pages, such conservative spokesmen as Russell (Conservative Mind) Kirk, Cornell University's Clinton Rossiter (Conservatism in America) and James Jackson Kilpatrick Jr., editor of the Richmond News Leader, spelled out the philosophy of their politics. Sometimes even outsiders were permitted aboard, among them Liberal Columnist Murray Kempton and Steve Allen, whose occupation as a TV comedian allows time for the espousal of liberal causes...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:27 p.m.). Lust for Life, M.G.M.'s 1956 biography of Vincent Van Gogh, with Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh and Anthony Quinn as Gauguin. Color...
...about 28, one-third of them enter in their 21st year, often as direct transfers from other colleges. This has given G.S. a younger look and some of the same collegiate trappings (clubs, a snack bar, a newspaper) of Columbia's other two undergraduate schools. University President Grayson Kirk, attempting to correct what he calls a "substantial veering" from the original role of G.S., has revived proposals to boost the minimum age from...
...Maynard Ferguson, 35, plays the most complex and modern arrangements of any big band since Kenton's, though Ferguson sometimes swamps his sidemen with his outer-space approach to the trumpet. Every so often, like Kirk Douglas in Young Man with a Horn, he gets up and tries for the groovy sound of an ambulance siren. But most of the time the boys roll along smoothly in spite...