William F. Buckley Jr.’s Relationship with Words an Enchantment

A few months ago, National Review graciously published something of mine, a meditation on growing up in working-class New York City.

I was over the moon. After long being warned off by friends to the tune of Forget NR — it’s an impossible gate to crash, I found my elation briefly tamped by the humbug of belonging to any club that’d have me for a member. But only briefly. Because, above all, the event completed a symmetry begun one Saturday, during the very time described in that piece.

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Tim Kelleher is an actor, a writer, a director, and a deacon in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

A few months ago, National Review graciously published something of mine, a meditation on growing up in working-class New York City.

I was over the moon. After long being warned off by friends to the tune of Forget NR — it’s an impossible gate to crash, I found my elation briefly tamped by the humbug of belonging to any club that’d have me for a member. But only briefly. Because, above all, the event completed a symmetry begun one Saturday, during the very time described in that piece.