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Friday, February 29, 2008
George Will :: Townhall.com Columnist
Before Modern Conservatives, There Was Buckley
by George Will
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Our path emerges for a while, then closes

Within a dream.

Bill's final dream was to see her again, a consummation of which his faith assured him. He had an aptitude for love -- of his son, his church, his harpsichord, language, wine, skiing, sailing.

He began his 60-year voyage on the turbulent waters of American controversy by tacking into the wind with a polemical book, "God and Man at Yale" (1951), that was a lovers' quarrel with his alma mater. And so at Pat's service the achingly beautiful voices of Yale's Whiffenpoofs were raised in their signature song about the tables down at Mory's, "the place where Louis dwells":

We will serenade our Louis
While life and voice shall last
Then we'll pass and be forgotten with the rest

Bill's distinctive voice permeated, and improved, his era. It will be forgotten by no one who had the delight of hearing it.

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George F. Will is a 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner whose columns are syndicated in more than 400 magazines and newspapers worldwide.
 
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Reply # 1
Date: Mar 3, 2008 - 6:23 AM EST
Henry George - second in ten

Bill Buckley is six of ten.

Anyone seeing a pttern here?
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Reply # 2
Date: Mar 3, 2008 - 5:51 AM EST
BUCKLEY NEVER DID LIKE THE SOUTHERNERS
I will always remember talking to Mr Buckley while he was briefly in Atlanta, Ga where he reminded me that the only reason he came to Atlanta was not because he enjoyed traveling to the South but because he absolutely had to.

BTW: He never did answer my question? I was joking with him and asked him if he was the editor of Review of the News and he turned about as Red as a Tomato and then I quickly said Oh no it was National Review...he replied that it was a terrible publication and I then asked him which one? Review of the News or National Review...???
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