William Safire's Books
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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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OpEdNews.com, March 28, 2013
...time it supposedly did occur, war hawks like the former Nixon propagandist and later New York Times columnist William Safire were trumpeting it as evidence of collusion between Hussein and bin Laden/al-Qaeda, and so linking Hussein to 9/11. At the time,...
Yahoo! Finance, March 28, 2013
...Press Release: Yale University Press – 1 minute 17 seconds ago Email 0 Recommend 0 Tweet 0 Share 0 NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 28, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Yale University Press is proud to debut its new downloadable app for The Yale Book of...
Broadway World, February 17, 2013
...frequently on All Things Considered and other NPR programs, and he was a periodic contributor to the late William Safire's popular "On Language" column for the New York Times Magazine. WORDS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE has been featured in The Washington Post,...
Huffington Post, February 9, 2013
...goal? If you want clarity, then, for example, "writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided," to quote William Safire's 1979 column in The New York Times. (The dangling particles aren't writing carefully. The writer is.) An even clearer...
Washington Times, January 29, 2013
...their commentaries. Although Mr. Dickson doesn?t identify the author, the speech was written by Pat Buchanan, who, with William Safire, would write for Agnew through the 1970 congressional campaign. Among other Agnewisms are the characterizations of...
Hudson Institute, January 18, 2013
...from the Mexicans and, more peacefully, from the British. The Nightingale's Song By Robert Timberg (1995) 5 William Safire suggested in 1983 that Ronald Reagan step down after one term, à la Polk, having accomplished many of his top domestic...
BBC, January 15, 2013
...trick, a pathological condition whose sufferers are classed as "compulsive", "inveterate" and "unable to help themselves". The late William Safire, the New York Times's long-time language writer, wrote in 2005 that a pun "is to wordplay what dominatrix...
Hudson Institute, January 18, 2013
...from the Mexicans and, more peacefully, from the British. The Nightingale's Song By Robert Timberg (1995) 5 William Safire suggested in 1983 that Ronald Reagan step down after one term, à la Polk, having accomplished many of his top domestic...
BBC, January 15, 2013
...trick, a pathological condition whose sufferers are classed as "compulsive", "inveterate" and "unable to help themselves". The late William Safire, the New York Times's long-time language writer, wrote in 2005 that a pun "is to wordplay what dominatrix...
Accuracy in Media, January 14, 2013
...worst of taste, if not also banishable offenses. Still, as conjured by the late New York Times columnist William Safire in 1996, the phrase described the then-first lady for her shameless prevarications. These included what sure looked like bribery...
The Empire, January 14, 2013
...kilt caught in a door. (iStockPhoto) Where does the phrase "the whole nine yards" come from? In 1982, William Safire called it "one of the great etymological mysteries of our time." He thought the phrase originally referred to the capacity of a...
NHPR, January 14, 2013
...Where does the phrase "the whole nine yards" come from? In 1982, William Safire called it "one of the great etymological mysteries of our time." He thought the phrase originally referred to the capacity of a cement truck in cubic yards. But...
NPR, January 14, 2013
...Where does the phrase "the whole nine yards" come from? In 1982, William Safire called it "one of the great etymological mysteries of our time." He thought the phrase originally referred to the capacity of a cement truck in cubic yards. But...
KNAU, January 14, 2013
...his kilt caught in a door. Where does the phrase "the whole nine yards" come from? In 1982, William Safire called it "one of the great etymological mysteries of our time." He himself thought that the phrase originally referred to the capacity of a...
