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The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right TimeFor the past twenty-five years Americans have relied on Pulitzer Prize-winning wordsmith William Safire for their weekly dose of linguistic...Read More -
No Uncertain TermsThere is no wittier, more amiable or more astute word maven than Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist William Safire. For many people, the first item on...Read More
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ScandalmongerA presidential hopeful has taken a beautiful, vulnerable woman as his mistress, though both are married to others. His rival for the presidency of the...Read More
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Atlantic Monthly, February 8, 2012
...covered the world like The New York Times . There isn't going to be any left-leaning equivalent of William Safire or David Brooks or Ross Douthat publishing opinion pieces at The Washington Free Beacon . There won't be an independent public editor...
LivDigital, February 1, 2012
...with their pens. During the past week, lists of writing commandments by Henry Miller, Elmore Leonard (above) and William Safire have buzzed around Twitter. (Find our Twitter stream here .) So we decided to collect them and add tips from a few other...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 31, 2012
...Colman has kindly collated sets of tips from Miller, Elmore Leonard, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman and William Safire into a single post for your inspirational reading. A countdown, Letterman-style, of 10 tips derived from their tips: 10....
Jewish World Review, January 25, 2012
...book, Jerome Chanes wrote of a “kishke factor,” referring not to politics but to how Jews experience anti-Semitism. William Safire once wrote that the greatest thrill a writer can experience is “to coin a word or phrase that fills a linguistic void...
Medford Mail Tribune, January 24, 2012
...nabobs of negativism," by which he meant the news media. (The phrase, incidentally, was coined by speechwriter William Safire, later a leading member of the Washington media elite). Jimmy Carter campaigned as a humble peanut farmer and Washington...
Investors Business Daily, January 17, 2012
...relayed he wanted to hit back "on the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose."... View Enlarged Image William Safire pondered what could have become one of the darkest days in universal history. What if the men on the moon couldn't blast off? They'd be stranded to...
Yahoo! México, January 13, 2012
...relayed he wanted to hit back "on the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose."... View Enlarged Image William Safire pondered what could have become one of the darkest days in universal history. What if the men on the moon couldn't blast off? They'd be stranded to...
Tablet Magazine, October 10, 2011
...Other early members included Mitch Caplan, the former CEO of E*Trade, and the late New York Times columnist William Safire. It was Safire, in fact, who was chiefly responsible for cementing Ross and Friedman’s joint ownership of the Yom Kippur...
Yeshiva World News, September 23, 2011
...rabbi would take homiletic guidance from the New York Times editorial page. In his memoir, former Nixon speechwriter William Safire told of his displeasure with a Yom Kippur sermon in which the rabbi warned “not to let our country be divided and...
separated by a common language, July 28, 2011
...already comes to AmE via Yiddish. It's used to mark exasperation, and it does so very well. William Safire, in this old On Language column, quotes Lillian Feinsilver's book Taste of Yiddish (1970), which suggests now as an alternative. But Turn that off,...
Locust blog, July 9, 2011
...ZUCKERMAN jew US News and World Report, DAILY NEWS. New ceo. >>>> A FEW NEOCONS/JEWS IN THE MEDIA William Safire The New York Times A. M. Rosenthal The New York Daily News Charles Krauthammer The Washington Post, The Weekly...
The Onion, May 22, 2011
...the most frequently made mistakes. “A lot of people confuse ‘your’ and ‘you’re,’” The New York Times’ William Safire said. “If you are unsure, I recommend you actually spell out ‘you are,’ and then see if it makes sense in context...
Fat Man on a Keyboard, May 10, 2011
...preferably to a trusted friend. The rules are much the same: Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don’t say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she...
Pictures Portal, May 5, 2011
...Franken , Alan Greenspan , Albert Einstein , Barbara Walters , Elizabeth Taylor , Gloria Steinem , Jewish American Heritage Month , News , Sandy Koufax , William Safire , Woody Allen | Jewish American Heritage Month Jewish-Americans are influential in...
