Mr. Buckley and five of his classmates gather at their 35th reunion for a good-

natured and wide-ranging discussion of the current state of the campuses and of the world--of which they have collectively seen a great deal. Mr. Massie: "There is a utopianism about the young.... The natural progression of intelligent men and women is to stand further and further back from utopianism and say increasingly [that] what we've got is worth keeping; let's not throw it away until we've got something better." Mr. Carver: "There is a great tendency to mirror-image yourself and project your own views and ideas on other people ... [to assume that] because Gorbachev has a nice wife who likes Gucci shoes and uses an American Express card there is going to be sweetness and light between us and the Soviet Union. This is not going to happen."