Word: yaf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself a conservative, O'Neil's politics are exceedingly shallow. His only national connection besides Wallace is John Wayne: he has a poster of Wayne in a cowboy outfit endorsing the Young Americans for Freedom and a postcard addressed to "Dapper" hanging on his office wall. A friend of YAF "When they were kids," O'Neill says he dislikes the John Birch Society although "a lot of the things they said are coming true." During the day I spent with him his only unsolicited comment on national politics concerned Earl Butz: "He shouldn't have resigned, he was only telling...
...reasons for bringing Shockley here are three-fold," a YAF law student began. "We wanted to refute his statist views (on government intervention into private lives); we wanted to vindicate Yale's students after their performances last year, and to check Yale's commitment to free speech." But YAF president Eugenc Meyer explained this strange free speech test with a neat historical analogy: "The problem of Hitler was not that he spoke, but that he was allowed to shut people...
...almost totally white audience reacted warmly to Shockley, greeting him with the applause usually worthy of a debate winner. But that should have been predictable. YAF had filtered out any possible dissenters, either by their exclusionary ticket policy--100 of the 265 seats went to YAF members--or by the deterrent of more than 20 plainclothesmen who checked and rechecked the stubs, and searched for cameras and tape recorders, banned from the event for fear of some sort of insurrection. Those in the first row had to be careful at the end of the debate not to be trampled...
...hard to imagine where an organization could find a man who was willing to discuss the only the implementation of the bonus plan--its bureaucratic impossibilities, and government meddling. But the YAF reached into its libertarian bullpen and produced the agreeable Rusher. This slow, just plain boring speaker (one Yale dean lunged for a book which he gleefully read upside down for a couple of pages in mid-argument) never moved beyond the gospel according to William F. Buckley. His laissez-faire attitude even extended to his unpolished debating techniques, apparently not improved by his stint...
...Hall steps to Peterson. Dals and other veeps We'll wished no enses to wake your sleeps To Comes and Jewett, sing Noel pax vobiscum fred deknatel A final Christmas laurel wreath George Bennett, hark' before you go And cheer to your portfolio To Messing Pasztor, Mercadel (Of SDS yaf. Afro) tell Your friends and comrades at and neat We send them hope for this new year To Buckley (Kevin) Ritchie Mike) We send Pulitzers (what Niemen like) For Marty Kilson and E. GuinierFour aspirin and two fifths of cheer. Dean Ebert, Dr. Funkenstein A Mystecin cocktail...