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Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

~William Safire

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To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

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What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial.

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Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

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Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words.

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When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

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A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

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A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

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The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'

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Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 17th, 1929

Died: September 27th, 2009

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