May/June 2008 Volume LXXI, Number 5
Photos at left are from various departments. Click on photos to read stories. (Credits, from top: Office of Public Affairs, Gregory Nemec, and AP Images.)
Feature stories:
Extreme makeover by Bruce Fellman
Paintings by Alan Male and Rudolph Zallinger '42BFA, '71MFA
Since the Peabody’s Age of Reptiles mural, dinosaurs have . . . evolved. We commissioned a painting that brings T. rex and kin into the 21st century.
William F. Buckley and Yale: three views
The loyal son by David Frum ’82, ’82MA
A new interpretation of Buckley’s legacy -- one that would have surprised the man himself.
The ideologue by Gaddis Smith ’54, ’61PhD
After publication of God and Man at Yale, Buckley’s broadside against his alma mater, Yale struggled to contain the fallout.
The founder by Sam Tanenhaus ’78MA
At Buckley’s Yale, Skull and Bones was still the apex of campus life, the Daily News board chugged martinis at Mory’s, and, as a new-moneyed Catholic, Buckley fit in and yet didn’t fit in. But he made the place his own, and there he found his voice as a conservative. |
