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...oppose the prevailing trend of public opinion; its purpose, indeed, is to change the nation's intellectual and political climate." Only five years out of Yale, Buckley had already made a national name for himself with his first book, God and Man at Yale, which accused his Alma Mater of preaching liberalism and secularism to the exclusion of almost everything else. And in that fall of 1955, the articulate young conservative found the political weather parlous. "Clever intriguers are reshaping both parties in the image of Babbitt gone Social-Democrat," he wrote. The press, he said, was a mess...
...truths of Society as we see them," says Buckley. National Review has held that racial segregation is "not intrinsically immoral," and it opposed the civil rights bill on the grounds that it ceded to the White House "the powers of a despot." When Pope John XXIII, in his Mater et Magistra encyclical, seemed to be saying that a little socialism was not necessarily bad, Buckley, a Roman Catholic, attacked the encyclical as "a venture in triviality." He also objected to last summer's Freedom March on Washington: "Mob-deployment in circumstances that call for thought and discussion...
VERDI: FOUR SACRED PIECES (Angel). Just before he wrote Falstaff at 79, Verdi composed the Ave Maria and Laudi alia Vergine Maria; he finished the Te Deum and Stabat Mater at 83. Together they make a magnificent and devout peroration to the lifework of a man who was a freethinker in his youth. The Te Deum includes a most urgent prayer, and Verdi asked that the music be buried with him. Carlo Maria Giulini leads the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus (240 voices) in a stereophonic recording that matches the soaring splendor of the music...
...EDUCATED EYE-Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th. Paintings and sculptures from the private collections of alumni and parents of the Dalton School, lent to benefit the alma mater. They include Cezanne's Under the Trees, Klee's Landscape with Signs, Picasso's witty Nude and Woman Washing her Feet, Hofmann's The Conjurer (a painter mid his pots), Calder's 1963 mobile, Yellow Flower. Through...
Lyons hopes to salvage enough time from his work with WGBH both to write on his own and to begin work as a trustee of the University of Massachusetts, his alma mater...