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Show - The Daily Utah Chronicle, Wednesday, January Page Five 11, 1978 LETTERS LETTER- S- Wise up, Buckley! limes? ! Editor: Your Chrony has consistently impressed me as being a real positive step in the direction of excellent journalism. We continued to feel this way upon reading your coverage of the William F. Buckley lecture last Thursday. You did a great job of sifting out the more coherent portions of whatever it was he had to say. Apparently you were willing, as part of your journalistic professionalism, to suspend any disbelief and focus objectively on the content of the lecture and not on its presentation, this would have included the speaker's more personal idiosyncracies visible from the audience, i.e., clearing his throat between every three or four words until it became distracting and noncommunicative and (humorously enough) standing on his tippy toes behind the podium for the entire time pivoting up and down to send the stress of this stance up through his frame to arrive at his stiffly gesturing arms and laboriously twisting tongue. Thank God for discriminating newswriters who can compile a story that makes such a lecture seem forthright and worthwhile. Letters guidelines Hey there, you illiterate slobs! All letters rmst be typewritten and signed, with your name and social security number. Address them to "Letters to the Editor," Daily Utah Chronicle. We have typewriters for your use in our offices, north wing of the Union. Our mental filters, however, were not working as well that day as we arrived amid the hundreds to hear Mr. Buckley do his thing, for we were there to be impressed, one way or the other, by the total man his delivery, his convictions, his shoestrings, the works. Well, we endured about halfway through his dissertation before our level of provocation forced us to walk out. Even before the first ten minutes had elapsed, my wife was wanting were begging for the to leave as her overloaded As of my greater exit. lor either of the nearest me, mercy tolerance or duller wit I was willing to continue to entertain the possibility he wou'id finally have something substantial to say. (I mean, when you tackle a subject like freedom, you must give it some real substance to bring it home to the listener.) I had even started taking notes hoping to steal a few licks of wisdom. We soon, instead, began to merely exchange contemptuous notes venting our disappointment, so we got up and conspicuously split the scene. Here are our crap-detecto- ADMIT IT KENT... YOU'RE ALWAYS OFF SOMEWHERE MS,.,WEARIN6 fable His lecture sort of reminded us of that old worn-ou- t he could knew He Clothes. New the about get Emperor's away with that shit because he's been billed as an intellectual so no one would dare say how vapid and empty his brilliant sounding ideas were for fear of looking like a fool. He sounded like a pedantic freshman "whatever-ology- " major professor. writing a term paper for an Furthermore, he tried to increase our opinion of him via knocking everyone else he didn't tell one anecdote that wasn't denigrating to someone (at least while we lasted there). His intellectual abilities to skillfully manipulate concepts and prearrange them into dense stringy sentences goes unquestioned. No doubt, he's a successful seasoned veteran at doing that! But he could hardly do more than occupy the same room with a dynamic, powerful and entertaining speaker like. ..oh, Jack Anderson, or even George Romney, for that matter! He was a very weak lecturer trying to rely on his clever verbiage to sell what? His own intellectual conceit? Certainly not any practical or even tangible convictions. "The freedom to deceive is overindulged." (Now that's cute! But what the hell does it really say or mean?) "The use of humanitarian cliches should be regulated." (How could you possibly do that, Jack? Or is this another intellectual joke?) "We are losing sight of the case for human freedom. ..and blah, blah, blah." (Aw, come on! The getting deep. Where's the exit?) Where does one fit a handle on this rhetoric in order to integrate it into something meaningful, and thus, of any value whatsoever? Why don't we just toss it out as wasted words? 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