Bob Shell wrote:
On Feb 17, 2006, at 6:46 PM, keith_w wrote:
Oh, I thought you meant the world famous William F. Buckley Jr.,
rightly called the intellectual heart of conservatism, who began the
National Review in 1955, and retired in 2004 as owner emeritus of the
same, will be sorely missed by one and all.
And perhaps the American with the largest vocabulary and stock of
obscure and obtuse words. One needs a dictionary at hand to read
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Bob
So true!
It always stretched my mind, reading him.
I never read him without a decent dictionary beside me.
He exposed me to a LOT of new words! Not all of which were necessarily
useful, or even made it into my personal, mind-based lexicon of the
English language...
But interesting? Oh, indeed.
keith
