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Discover this new way with VERNON powerful principles. Classes Wednesdays 7PM Neighborhood Church $3 donation www. anewlife.org (714) 899-9300 SPIRITUALPSYCHOLOGYCLASSES OBITUARIES I rving Kristol, a forceful essayist, editor and university professor who became the leading architect of neoconservatism, which he called a political and intellectual movement for disaffected ex-liberals like himself who had been by died Fridayat a hospice in Arlington, Va. He was 89. He died of complications from lung cancer, said his son, William Kristol, the founder and editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine.

The elder Kristol founded and edited magazines such asEncounter and the Public Interest that targeted an elite audience of political, social and cultural tastemakers. In addition to his professorship at New York University, he advanced his ideas through monthly opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal and a fellowship at the American Enterprise Institute think tank. He was for many years an editor at Basic Books, a small but distinguished publisher of works in social science and philosophy. Karl Rove, a Republican strategist who advised former President George W. Bush, called Kristol an entrepreneur who helped energize several generations of public policy Through his editing, writing and speaking, Kristol it a moral imperative to rouse conservatism from mainstream Chamber of Commerce boosterism to a deep immersion in Rove said.

He added that Kris- tol helped create a synthesis of Cold War Democrats and Reagan White House anti-communist hawks, which proved decisive in influencing foreign and military policy in the 1980s. Kristol and his historian wife, Gertrude Himmelfarb, along with a group of sociologists, historians and academics including Norman Podhoretz, Nathan Glazer, Richard Pipes and for awhile Daniel P. Moynihan, emerged in the late 1960s and as prominent critics of welfare programs, tax policy, moral relativism and countercultural social upheavals they felt were contributing to cultural and social decay. His father was an immigrant garment worker from Eastern Europe, and Kristol grew up under humble circumstances that shaped his beliefs. who have been raised in poor neighborhoods the Daniel Patrick Moynihans, Edward Banfields, Nathan Glazers tend to be tough- minded about slums and their he told the New York Times.

Middle-class sociologists, he said, certain that a juvenile delinquent from a welfare family is a far more interesting figure with a greater potentiality for redeeming not only himself but all of us than an ordinary, law-abiding and conforming youngster who is from the very same Kristol had grown dismayed by the fragmentation of the Democratic Party over the war in Southeast Asia and remained a vigorous defender of a strong military to combat communist threats. He championed a steady focus on economic growth that gives democracies their legitimacy and but cautioned against running deficits. He popularized supply-side economics, long considered a fringe belief that tax cuts would lead to widespread financial prosperity. Supply side became a leading conservative cause in the 1980s and influenced the Reagan adminis- policy. Kristol and many of his colleagues were dubbed neoconservatives, a term introduced by social critic Michael Harringtonto describe the rightward turn of onetime liberals such as Kristol, whose extraordinary political odyssey had taken him from Depression-era socialist to anti-communist Cold Warrior and Vietnam War hawk.

While use of neocon- servative was not intended as a compliment, Kristol embraced the term and became its widely accepted godfather. A cover story on Kristol in Esquire magazine in 1979 helped legitimize him as the leader of a full-fledged movement, even as he played down the idea that such a formal faction existed. are not a he once said. has never been a meeting of He called it an that came to prominence after a Kristol found his public profile raised greatly by the Reagan presidency, when many neoconservatives, such as Paul Wolfowitz, William Bennett, Richard Perle and Elliott Abrams, began to occupy administration jobs and found themselves in positions of influence over domestic, diplomatic and defense policy. Neocon- servatism also formed the core beliefs of many advisors to George W.

Bush, who gave Kristol the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, for helping set intellectual groundwork for the renaissance of conservative ideas in the last half of the 20th Cultural and intellectual historian Paul Boyerof the University of Wis- consincalled Kristol of those who helped make conservatism intellectually in the 1960s when New Deal liberalism was still a dominant political philosophy. Conservatives, Boyer said, had long been mar- ginalized as backward-thinking scolds who denounced social policies created by the central government. Jacob Heilbrunn, author of Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the thinking a big role in reshaping the Republican told traditional conservatives you need to accept New Deal and accept the achievements of Heilbrunn said. try to roll it back but stop it from expanding further. He and other neoconservatives of his generation, including Norman Podhoretz, had a galvanizing effect on the Republican Party, and were viewed as heretics and ostracized by a mainstream intellectual establishment that was overwhelmingly liberal.

Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz come out of that radical and liberal tradition and they were seen as Irving William Kristol was born Jan. 22, 1920, in Brooklyn, N.Y., attended City College of New York and served in the Army during World War II. Besides his son and his wife of 67 years, whom he met at a Socialist League meeting, he is survived by a daughter and five grandchildren. Bernstein writes for the Washington Post. IRVING KRISTOL, 1920 2009 Essayist was godfather of neoconservatism Adam Bernstein Associated Press INTELLECTUAL Irving Kristol energize several generations of public policy said Republican strategist Karl Rove.

Willy Ronis French postwar photographer Willy Ronis, 99, the last of postwar greats of photography who captured the essence of Paris in black- and-white scenes of everyday life, died Sept. 12 at a Paris hospital, said Stephane Ledoux, president of the Eyedea photo agency. Lovers, nudes and scenes from Paris streets, including Lovers, Paris the mainstay of photographs, which reflect the so-called humanist school of photography. Ronis, along with friend Robert Doisneau and photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson, were among great photographers who emerged after World War II. Photographs of eastern Paris, where Ronis lived, were collected in a book of the Belleville and Menilmon- tant neighborhoods that reached cult status in France.

His photos of lovers against the Paris skyline or a nude at a wash basin also helped define him. Born in Paris on Aug. 14, 1910, Ronis studied violin, but gave up a music career to take over the family photo studio when his father fell ill. Amonth after his father died in 1936, Ronis did his first reportage, a Bastille Day parade. He worked steadily until World War II, when he joined the army.

When the Nazis invaded France, Ronis, born to Jewish parents who had fled the pogroms, moved to unoccupied France. Ronis later worked for numerous publications, including Life magazine, and collected a host of honors. Dorothy Wellman Busby Berkeley dancer, actress Dorothy Wellman, 95, an actress and Busby Berkeley dancer who was the fifth and last wife of Hollywood director William Wellman, died of natural causes Wednesdayat her Brentwood home, said her son William Wellman Jr. Born Nov. 25, 1913, in Minneapolis, she moved with her family to Los An- geles as a child.

She took dance lessons and at age 14 quit school when she landed a part as a dancer in the Warner Bros. film of (1929). She went on to dance in sequences choreographed by Berkeley for such films as Kid From (1932), (1933) and Diggers of (1933). It was while working on that she met Wellman, a prolific director who had guided the 1927 film to the first Academy Award for best picture. He cast her in the 1933 movie Boys of the and then married her the next year.

She gave up acting to have a family and the couple had seven children, all of whom had show business careers of varying degrees. The couple remained married until death in 1975. Besides her son William, she is survived by two other sons, Mike and Tim; four daughters, Cissy Wellman Guydus, Kitty Wellman, Maggie Cer- minaro and Patricia Lawe; 22 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. Guy Graham Babylon Keyboard player for Elton band Guy Graham Babylon, 52, a Grammy Award-winning musician who played keyboards with Elton band for more than 20 years, died of arrhythmia Sept. 2 at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks.

Babylon, an Agoura Hills resident who swam competitively during his youth in Baltimore, was stricken while swimming and later pronounced dead at the hospital. am devastated and heartbroken at the death of Guy John wrote in a tribute on his website. was one of the most brilliant musicians I ever knew, a true genius, a gentle angel and I loved him so Born Dec. 20, 1956, in Baltimore, Babylon attended the University of South Florida on a swimming scholarship, and earned a degree in music composition in 1979. He moved to California and found work as a session musician.

He joined band as second keyboardist in 1988 and four years later became lead keyboardist. In addition to recording 12 albums with John, Babylon recorded with such artists as Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Fats Domino, B.B. King and Dwight Twilley. Along with three other producers, an lyricist Tim Rice and composer John, Babylon shared a Grammy for the 2000 Broadway musical In 2006, he was supervisor and orchestrator for the Broadway show staff and wire reports news.obits@latimes.com PASSINGS Willy Ronis Lovers, nudes and scenes from Paris streets, including Lovers, Paris above, were the mainstay of photographs, which reflect the so-called humanist school of photography. Remy de la Mauviniere Associated Press PHOTOGRAPHER Willy Ronis, seen in 2005, captured the essence of Paris in black-and-white scenes of everyday life.

Baltimore Sun KEYBOARDIST Guy Babylon was a Grammy Award-winning musician who played with Elton band for more than 20 years. CMYK.