Buckley, with his winningly capricious personality, his use of ten-dollar words and a darting tongue writers loved to compare to an anteater’s, was the popular host of one of television’s longest-running programs, “Firing Line,” and founded and shepherded the influential conservative magazine “National Review.”
He also found time to write more than 50 books, ranging from sailing odysseys to spy novels to dissertations on harpsichord fingering to celebrations of his own dashing daily life. He edited at least five more.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, 82
One of the great thinkers of the last century. From The New York Times obit:
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Can I get the points for Buddy Miles of Electric Flag, Band of Gypsies and the Calf. Raisins
Do you award points for reporting departures of another sort? Say, Tony Messenger leaving the News-Leader?
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