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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... interest . Is he . . . she ... there ? You look around . No. Is there an alternative querencia anywhere about ? Well , yes . Somebody told you that Algernon MacNair was going to be there . Not quite the company you most looked forward ...
... interest . Is he . . . she ... there ? You look around . No. Is there an alternative querencia anywhere about ? Well , yes . Somebody told you that Algernon MacNair was going to be there . Not quite the company you most looked forward ...
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... interest to you under the auspices of this celebration . Early on I found myself wondering why exactly it was thought appro- priate , let alone necessary , to praise famous men . If such men as were to be praised were already famous ...
... interest to you under the auspices of this celebration . Early on I found myself wondering why exactly it was thought appro- priate , let alone necessary , to praise famous men . If such men as were to be praised were already famous ...
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... interest ; the good - better society . The idea of a vote governed by an ethos of the commonweal - a voter's fiduciary obli- gation to vote not alone for his narrow best interest , but for the public interest — is substantially lost ...
... interest ; the good - better society . The idea of a vote governed by an ethos of the commonweal - a voter's fiduciary obli- gation to vote not alone for his narrow best interest , but for the public interest — is substantially lost ...
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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 |