Word: yaf
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...perennial setbacks by assurring each other that "salvation-is-just-around-the-corner" -- but found only repeated clobbering around that bend. It is hard (even for them) to avoid feeling that History is with the other team: one begins to discount their wishful optimism. A triumph such as the YAF rally takes one aback: young people are supposed to be liberal, and New York is hardly a reactionary stronghold to begin with. One wonders if there might really be, as the YAF leaders claim, a great upsurge in rightist sentiment among students...
Despite the claims of YAF to be a youthful, dynamic, libertarian movement, the rally was cast in the rigid mold right-wing gatherings have used from time immemorial. At least nine American flags hung over the stage. The young officials of YAF had the appearance, as George Sokolsky put it, of "trustees of an institution." Their lengthy speeches ranged from conventionstyle rhetoric ("it is a significant historical movement -- the wave of the future -- leading to the rise of a responsible alternative to apathy"), to downright poor taste ("We will be done with the beatniks, the puerile purveyors of pornography...
...Another YAF plaque went to the National Review, which is edited by William F. Buckley, Jr. whom many hold responsible for the YAF's existence. On receiving the citation from a group he advises and helps finance, Buckley declared that "There is no other award we at National Review would rather have. To be sure," he added wryly, "there is no other award we are likely to receive...
Goldwater hailed the YAF as a movement which will eventually "put this feet back on constitutional as in order to go on with our business being the leader of the world." He the rise of conservatism among to "the exhilarating effects of the of freedom...
...addition to hearing Goldwater, the up awarded plaques--"YAF Nation---to 12 individuals and groups. included Russell Kirk, teacher and of The Conservative Mind: The public of china, represented by its Mr. George K. C. Yeh: Taylor a novelist: the House on Un-American Activities; the -Edison Company; Lewis L. Strauss, presented by Archibald B. Roosevelt '17. The College delegation to the rally-- members of the Harvard Young publican Club--was headed by Howard Phillips '62, a member of YAF's Nation. Board of Directors. Proceedings have started to establish a YAF chapter the University, according to Phillips...