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International Herald Tribune
November 9, 2008
By William Safire Sometimes a phrase is around so much it hardly gets noticed. Lexicographic research shrugs it off either as a "nonce term" - here today, ...
Kilgore News Herald
November 9, 2008
One man had a question about William Safire. But none of the roughly 100 people present had a grammar question. After the talk, while signing books, ...
New York Times
November 7, 2008
By William Safire Sometimes a phrase is around so much it hardly gets noticed. Lexicographic research shrugs it off either as a "nonce term" - here today, ...
Santa Ynez Valley Journal
November 6, 2008
Village Times Herald
November 6, 2008
Yet as
William Safire noted in a subsequent "On Language" column in The
New York Times, such grammatically correct usage "comes across as an affectation. ...
Harvard Political Review
November 5, 2008
... Bob Dole, Patrick Buchanan,
William Safire, and
Karl Rove implicitly tied to Nixon and his ugly legacy by various personal and political connections. ...
Muncie Star Press
November 4, 2008
In a
New York Times column,
William Safire traced the origin of "in the tank" back past a Saturday Night Live reference this spring -- when fake TV ...
Inquirer.net
November 4, 2008
We're a group that columnist
William Safire once joshed as the "almost-old." At Mythers' Thursday lunch for
editors, Cris Icban of Manila Bulletin and I ...
MediaPost Publications
November 3, 2008
William Safire credited Russert with popularizing and cementing the "blue-Democrat, red-Republican assignment." Now the branding was complete: Democrats ...
Tapped
November 3, 2008
Inquirer.net
November 3, 2008
Name recall, however, dims in people like us-a group that columnist
William Safire once joshed as the "almost-old." At Mythers' Thursday lunch for
editors, ...
New York Times
November 1, 2008
By William Safire The language of political campaigning sparkles with coinages, clangs with old and new symbols and fills the hall with updated echoes of ...
New York Times
November 1, 2008
I believe William Safire is inaccurate in applying the designation "verbal tic" to certain word choices by the presidential candidates (On Language, ...
Town Hall
October 31, 2008
by Hugh Hewitt The magnificent
William Safire used to channel
Richard Nixon from above in an occasional column, and read the mind the various Soviet bigs. ...
New York Times
October 31, 2008
By William Safire The language of political campaigning sparkles with coinages, clangs with old and new symbols and fills the hall with updated echoes of ...
Lew Rockwell
October 31, 2008
...
politician or commentator so contrarian as to believe his [Inman's] improbable parting charge of a conspiracy" between Senator Dole and
William Safire. ...
FayObserver.com
October 29, 2008
This one, from 1988, is by language maven
William Safire of The
New York Times. This one, from the
UK-based Phrase Finder, has lots of mind-bending
math ...
International Herald Tribune
October 27, 2008
By William Safire Metaphor is speech with a cute figure. That's a metaphoric sentence, taking "a verbal device that implies comparison with a wholly ...
Inquirer.net
October 24, 2008
William Safire of The
New York Times recently wrote about the proverb, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." He explained that the test, so to speak, ...
MTV.com
October 24, 2008
Ozzy Osbourne: The perfect fill-in for stuffy Times Sunday magazine "On Language" columnist William Safire. Britney Spears: Hey, y'all, how about a guest ...
SF Weekly Blogs
October 23, 2008
Deborah Solomon interviews Robert Kenner, director of the yet-unreleased documentary Food Inc. William Safire deconstructs trendy food words including ...
American Chronicle
October 22, 2008
Authors and
Journalists such as
William Safire, Luke Harding, Lolke van der Heide and Robert Soeterik, cited Dr. Jerjis, have inaccurately described
Kerkuk ...
Huffington Post
October 20, 2008
The then-vice president, former
Maryland Governor
Spiro Agnew, aided by Pat Buchanan and
William Safire railed against the news media and war protesters. ...
International Herald Tribune
October 19, 2008
By
William Safire Gwen Ifill of
PBS, my former
New York Times colleague who has a book centering on
Barack Obama and other rising black political leaders ...
New York Times
October 17, 2008
By
William Safire Gwen Ifill of
PBS, my former Times colleague, who has a book centering on
Barack Obama and other rising black political leaders due to ...
Edmonton Sun
October 16, 2008
It was Casey who had first used the term privately (according to language guru and former
Richard Nixon speechwriter
William Safire) in 1968, ...
Plenty Magazine
October 16, 2008
Even linguist
William Safire gets in on the local-foods game in this weekend's food issue of the
New York Times Magazine. In investigating the meaning of ...
Voice of America
October 15, 2008
Writer William Safire says the expression is two hundred years old. He says candidates many years ago spoke while standing on the stump of a tree in front ...
Baraboo News Republic
October 15, 2008
... and Eugene Robinson, but in terms of style, I have always admired conservatives William F. Buckley Jr., William Safire, and George F. Will. ...
DesMoinesRegister.com
October 14, 2008
William Safire in his political dictionary defines a mandate as: "the authority to carry out a program conferred on an elected official; especially strong ...
International Herald Tribune
October 12, 2008
By William Safire Like many of us (a smarmily folksy phrase used by demagogues), at breakfast I breeze through the editorial pages of several newspapers and ...
Boston Globe
October 12, 2008
Next, assign and discuss a language column with your students, such as, William Safire's "On Language" or Jan Freeman's "The Word. ...
OpEdNews
October 10, 2008
He and everyone in his campaign have become what Mrs. Palin's prototype,
Spiro Agnew, called (in
William Safire's words), "nattering nabobs of negativism. ...
New York Times
October 9, 2008
A recent high-profile
US Senate race does not support
William Safire's suggestion that when race is involved, voters lie to
pollsters about their intentions ...
Washington Post
October 7, 2008
Since I began with the Times' conservative columnist of the moment, I will end with its conservative columnist of years past -- the estimable William Safire ...
Ventura County Star
October 5, 2008
Academies that rule out
words and phrases, as well as language mavens such as
William Safire, might sniff at our expressions. ...
Kentucky.com
October 5, 2008
William Safire would like you to think about the fourth quarter, and he does not mean the end of the
football game: He means the last part of your life, ...
New York Times
October 4, 2008
By
William Safire Headline in The Sunday Times (in
London): "
Henry Paulson buries US Toxic Debt," with the lead describing the Treasury secretary's task as ...
American Journalism Review
October 3, 2008
Caine says it's hypocritical for the Times to praise Carlin for reducing the shock value of the seven words, as language columnist William Safire did, ...
Gary Post Tribune
October 3, 2008
... policies on civil liberties after the 2001
terrorism attacks earned him the nickname "Mr. Privacy" from
New York Times columnist
William Safire. ...
