William Safire's Profile
Brief about William Safire: By info that we know William Safire was born at 1929-12-17. And also William Safire is American Author.
Some William Safire's quotes. Goto "William Safire's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Language, Minds, WordsThe 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.'
Tags: American, Culture, UsedToday, 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.
Tags: Choice, Today, WarWhat 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.
Tags: Good, Nice, PoliticalWhen infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'
Tags: Delight, Electronic, SayingWhen I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.
Tags: Dictionary, Meaning, WordThe right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
Tags: MeanIf you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
Tags: Deal, Great, WorkTo be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.
Tags: Accused, Dismissed, MindA reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
Tags: Able, Become, MindAt a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
Tags: Mean, Point, WordCast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.
Tags: Decision, Hard, WriteI welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
Tags: Old, Used, WordsI'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.
Tags: WillingIs sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
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