Buckley, the Right WordRandom House, 1996 - 524 páginas "William F. Buckley, Jr., who is even more well known for his supple vocabulary, productivity, and remarkable range of interests than for his politics, provides a one-man show of English in action. By examining the variety of ways in which he employs language, and the responses to them, the reader who delights in words will delight in these exchanges of opinion about the many meanings of language." "Not all the rewards are in Buckley's own words. Drawing on his correspondents, his friends, his critics, and the work of others, the text provides provocative examples, discussion, and, often, debate in various voices." "Much of Bill Buckley's extraordinary mail is concerned with questions of usage. Generous samplings of that correspondence appear along with major essays, columns, interviews, introductions, articles, reviews, and appreciations. There is, too, a Buckley Lexicon, hundreds of words he employs, giving definitions plus examples of their uses from his published writings."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... appears over his name , and so telephoned to the editor and said in words less than entirely conciliatory , Where do you get off putting " chairperson " where I ... appear as “ theater . " That is plain house 94 / Buckley : The Right Word.
... appears over his name , and so telephoned to the editor and said in words less than entirely conciliatory , Where do you get off putting " chairperson " where I ... appear as “ theater . " That is plain house 94 / Buckley : The Right Word.
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... appear to be so self - evident as to cause special concern that the edi- tors of a highbrow journal , engaged after all in tastemaking , should appear to be if not ignorant of it , at least unconvinced by it . Moreover , in the dis ...
... appear to be so self - evident as to cause special concern that the edi- tors of a highbrow journal , engaged after all in tastemaking , should appear to be if not ignorant of it , at least unconvinced by it . Moreover , in the dis ...
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... appearing on talk shows , ex- plaining such terms as " sociopath , " " psychopath , " and other arcana of penological psy- chology . ( From Right Reason , p . 186 , Doubleday & Company , 1985 ) artifice ( noun ) A wily or artful ...
... appearing on talk shows , ex- plaining such terms as " sociopath , " " psychopath , " and other arcana of penological psy- chology . ( From Right Reason , p . 186 , Doubleday & Company , 1985 ) artifice ( noun ) A wily or artful ...
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adjective adverb American asked Bill Bill Buckley Blackford Oakes Buckley Buckley's called Churchill Clare Boothe Luce column Cordially course critics Cruising Speed Dear Dear Bill dictionary Doubleday & Company editor English Erika Evelyn Waugh father feel Firing Line G. P. Putnam's Sons give happened High Jinx INTERVIEWER John kind language Latin Left and Right letter Liberalism look magazine matter Mayor means mind moral National Review never Norman Mailer noun novel Overdrive person political President problem Professor question Random House reader Regnery Books Right Reason ROSE Rumbles Left Saving the Queen sense sentence social someone Soviet speak speech Stalin Stein & Day style talk tell thing thought tion told Tom Wolfe Tucker's Last Stand Unmaking verb Viking Press Waugh week William F words write wrote Yale York young
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Sound-Alikes: A Dictionary of Midwestern American English Homophones Frank P. Hogan Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |