NYT reporting that William F Buckley has died

NYT | 2/26/08

[Borges]

Dead at 82

[Old Professer]

Oh yes, he was indeed famous for his encyclopedic speech, his pregnant pedant-ism and his grasp of the precise.

I can see Safire, standing there with outstretched hand, a wicked smile on his beaming face and the two of them walking along, trading great sesquipedelian soliloquies as they stroll, now never tiring.

[King of Florida]

I can see Safire, standing there with outstretched hand, a wicked smile on his beaming face and the two of them walking along, trading great sesquipedelian soliloquies as they stroll, now never tiring.

Safire is still alive and well.

[spanalot]

How inappropriate that after a lifelong committment, we only have Hillary, Obama, and McCain.

[spanalot]

He is with Pat - who probably awaits with a bottle of wine, cheese plate, and afterdinner smokes.

Enjoy!

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Time to play the 3rd movement of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2 in tribute.

Benjamin Britten & the English Chamber Orchestra
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserve/B00000AFQC001008/0/

Herbert von Karajan & the Berlin Philharmonic
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserve/B000001GXX002003/0/

Karl Richter and the Munich Bach Orchestra
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserve/B0000057DE001007/0/

Roy Goodman & the Brandenburg Consort
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserve/B000002ZE7001007/0/

Pablo Casals & the Marlboro Festival Orchestra
http://www.musicuploader.org/MUSIC/7377171204131291.mp3

[Vision]

Wow. RIP Sir. Godspeed. Thank you for everything.

Rush is gonna be torn up, and on in 4 minutes.

[nutmeg]

From NRO’s “The Corner”

William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died overnight in his study in Stamford, Connecticut.

After year of illness, he died while at work; if he had been given a choice on how to depart this world, I suspect that would have been exactly it. At home, still devoted to the war of ideas.

As you might expect, we’ll have much more to say here and in NR in the coming days and weeks and months. For now: Thank you, Bill. God bless you, now with your dear Pat. Our deepest condolences to Christopher and the rest of the Buckley family. And our fervent prayer that we continue to do WFB’s life’s work justice.

02/27 11:13 AM

[Alberta's Child]

There was a time I could never hear that classical music without thinking of Firing Line.

Now, that music reminds me of a hilarious radio segment by a New York City talk radio host named Jay Diamond back in the early 1990s. Diamond could amazing on-air impersonations of all kinds of famous people -- including William F. Buckley. For a while he would do a periodic skit in which he'd play the opening strains of Firing Line, then have "William . . . F. . . . Buckley" introduce a comical "show" called Firing Squad in which he lampooned all kinds of silly liberals in the news at the time.

[Vision]

Thanks again Mr. Buckley. We’ll take it from here.

[struggle]

From God and the Man at Yale to the Man and God.

[spanalot]

Great Post!

[tsmith130]

RIP

I didn't realize he had lived in the same town as I do.

[beelzepug]

“Byrd hospitalized after fall”

Trip over his sheet?

[Pyro7480]

Bach - Brandenburg Concertos No.2 - iii: Allegro assai (YouTube)

[elizabetty]

One of the true pioneers of the conservative movement

The.

[July 4th]

RIP. A prolific brilliance.

[Pyro7480]

His use of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (BMV 1047), 3d movement (Allegro Assai) as the theme for Firing Line gave me my first (childhood) appreciation of orchestral music (and especially in this case, the Baroque).

GMTA. See my #40 and my #94.

[Delacon]

R.I.P Mr. Buckley.

[KarlInOhio]

Sad to see him go. I remember sitting in the front row of my college economics class reading "Up From Liberalism" when the prof entered the class just to try to get a reaction.

[LilAngel]

Prayers up. A piece of me died with him.