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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... happened , to the reader of the Sports Section . Or of the Financial Section . After a while you feel quite at home . 4. It's fair to distinguish between different categories of unusual words . ( Again ) as Dwight Macdonald wrote ...
... happened , to the reader of the Sports Section . Or of the Financial Section . After a while you feel quite at home . 4. It's fair to distinguish between different categories of unusual words . ( Again ) as Dwight Macdonald wrote ...
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... happened before in that novel or , for that matter , anything that happened subsequently .... I pray that the reader will enjoy even languorously the animations here collected .... Entertainment and distraction are the objective . The ...
... happened before in that novel or , for that matter , anything that happened subsequently .... I pray that the reader will enjoy even languorously the animations here collected .... Entertainment and distraction are the objective . The ...
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... happened at 11:22 on that morning , but about what happened during all the years I had known him . Was it one hundred nights or was it one thousand and one nights that we shared , in fine and awful circumstances , the cockpit of a boat ...
... happened at 11:22 on that morning , but about what happened during all the years I had known him . Was it one hundred nights or was it one thousand and one nights that we shared , in fine and awful circumstances , the cockpit of a boat ...
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adjective American appear asked become believe Bill Buckley called cause column communism Company course critics Dear don't Doubleday & Company editor English expression fact father feel G. P. Putnam's Sons give given hand happened House idea interest INTERVIEWER John kind language later less letter Liberalism live look magazine March matter Mayor means mind National Review never noun novel once person play political President Press problem published Queen question reader reason reference require Review Right ROSE Saving sense sentence simply social sometimes Soviet speak speech stand style suggest talk tell thing thought tion told turned verb week words write written wrote York young
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Sound-Alikes: A Dictionary of Midwestern American English Homophones Frank P. Hogan Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |