Posted on 03/26/2012 11:42:12 PM PDT by OddLane
Priscilla L. Buckley, a journalist who was the longtime managing editor of National Review, the conservative magazine founded by her brother William F. Buckley Jr., died on Sunday at her home in Sharon, Conn. She was 90.
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Quite a family.
R.I.P.
I believe it was she who wrote the line about “standing athwart history yelling “Stop!”
And the sentence that started: “The United Nations—which by the way why doesn’t someone blow it up?-—...”
From the article:
“In that role, she oversaw the day-to-day operations of the magazine, riding herd — by all accounts without raising her voice so much as a decibel — on a staff of occasionally bibulous, sometimes fractious and constitutionally dilatory writers.”
The NYT trying to do its best Buckley imitation (sorry guys, WFB was better).
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