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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Richard Buckle

Born: August 6, 1916
Died: October 12, 2001 (aged 85)
Bio: Christopher Richard Sandford Buckle, better known as Richard Buckle, was a lifelong devotee of ballet, and a well-known ballet critic. He founded the magazine Ballet in 1939, and revived it after the war.
Known for:
- Nijinsky: A Life of Genius and Madness
- Nijinsky (1971)
- Buckle at the ballet (1980)
- Diaghilev (1979)
- In the wake of Diaghilev (1982)