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In Memoriam
It is with sadness that we note the passing today of Irving Kristol, a founding member of ACTA's National Council and Donors Working Group. Mr. Kristol died in Washington DC, at the age of 89. He, his wife Gertrude Himmelfarb and son Bill have, all three, set remarkable standards of intellectual accomplishment, civic engagement and the life of the mind.
Irving and his family constitute what ACTA National Council Member Marty Peretz has called "a familial intellectual aristocracy. And no mean aristocracy it is." We will remember fondly Irving's lively engagement with ideas and the superlative example he set of vigorous participation in our democratic republic.
Posted by Anne D. Neal on September 18, 2009 at September 18, 2009 05:41 PM
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