Fond Farewells
William F. Buckley, 1925-2008
Sam Falk / The New York Times / ReduxHe was the beginning — the patriarch, the "pope" — of modern American conservatism. With the founding of the National Review in 1955, Buckley hoped to inject conservatism with a sense of urgency, literally to "stand athwart history yelling 'Stop!'" He succeeded, ultimately ushering in the era of Reagan and Bush squared. And whether it was in the Review or on his long-running television show Firing Line, Buckley reveled in the verbal spar. Of course he did. Even when he was wrong, he was right.
—Gilbert Cruz
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Fond Farewells: Full List
- William F. Buckley, 1925-2008
- George Carlin, 1937-2008
- Cyd Charisse, 1921-2008
- Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008
- Michael Crichton, 1942-2008
- Mahmoud Darwish, 1942-2008
- Michael DeBakey, 1908-2008
Adrian Kantrowitz, 1918-2008 - Anne d'Harnoncourt, 1943-2008
- Bo Diddley, 1928-2008
- Mark Felt, 1913-2008
- Bobby Fischer, 1943-2008
- Gary Gygax, 1938-2008
- Jörg Haider, 1950-2008
- Grace Hartigan, 1922-2008
- Isaac Hayes, 1942-2008
- Jesse Helms, 1921-2008
- Charlton Heston, 1923-2008
- Edmund Hillary, 1919-2008
- Eartha Kitt, 1927-2008
- Heath Ledger, 1979-2008
- Sherman Lee, 1918-2008
- Mildred Loving, 1939-2008
- Bernie Mac, 1957-2008
- Miriam Makeba, 1932-2008
- Jim McKay, 1921-2008
- Anthony Minghella, 1954-2008
- Imad Mughniyah, 1962-2008
- Paul Newman, 1925-2008
- Odetta, 1930-2008
- Bettie Page, 1923-2008
- Randy Pausch, 1960-2008
- Harold Pinter, 1930-2008
- Suzanne Pleshette, 1937-2008
- Sydney Pollack, 1934-2008
- Dith Pran, 1942-2008
- Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008
- Tim Russert, 1950-2008
- Yves Saint Laurent, 1936-2008
- Tony Snow, 1955-2008
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008
- Suharto, 1921-2008
- Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
- Jørn Utzon, 1918-2008
- David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 1918-2008
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