Charlie Rose with William Kristol & Ralph Reed; Abe Rosenthal; William Safire (September 19, 1995)
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Yesterday morning saw the memorial service for The New York Times ' William Safire , the former Nixon speechwriter who became an Op-Ed columnist for the paper in 1973. Katherine Rosman was scoping the scene The Wall Street Journal and she got all the dirt : Present at the memorial was Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. , who recounted how Safire had been hired by his father...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
WSJ.com Mort Zuckerman recalled advice he received from William Safire , including: "If you think it is unlikely to offend anyone or ruffle any feathers, go back and start again." Son Mark Safire told the crowd: "He was not just a good journalist. He was a good dad."
sotosay (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
I don’t remember where I came across this. I don’t even know if this hilarious piece is rightly attributed to Mr. Safire. But, I just felt this is a good way of remembering the great columnist reading whom was such a joy. Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do [...]
KR Blog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Three days after National Punctuation Day, William Safire passed away. The significance of this easily-contrived-yet-potentially-symbolic temporal proximity occurred to me today, as I stumbled upon Safire’s NY Times column regarding hyphenation. Hyphens are, no doubt, a strange breed. The “Motivated Grammar” Blog links, generally, the origin of punctuation to...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Why should anybody want to define himself by what he is not? — William Safire I recently received an email from Jason, one of my readers, who wanted to know what POC and WOC are. So I gave him a short explanation. And then I wrote that if he doesn’t know the terminology, I might have [...]
ecopolitology (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... has became so commonplace it was named and defined in 1978 by journalist and political writer William Safire in his Safire’s Political Dictionary . Safire called the practice “-gate construction” and admits that he is just as culpable as the next reporter for perpetuating the practice by referring to a 1976 scandal as Koreagate. Vote & Share: Share But we haven’t always...
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... Janklow made a career switch from corporate attorney to literary agent, a fellow member, columnist William Safire, offered himself as a famous first client. When Robert Menschel, a senior director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., was considering deals involving large consumer companies such as Procter & Gamble, he would pick the brain of fellow club member Ed Meyer, the former chief...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... I saw who broke through the "de mortuis" sentimentalism around the Times' late language meister William Safire to nail the propagandist and congenital war-monger: "the true Safire touch -- clever, punchy, alliterative, demagogic." In a more consequential "close reading" of the Times through five days of late October , Bromwich wrote: "the conclusion draws itself. The New York...
The Wall Street Journal (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... Janklow made a career switch from corporate attorney to literary agent, a fellow member, columnist William Safire, offered himself as a famous first client. When Robert Menschel, a senior director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., was considering deals involving large consumer companies such as Procter & Gamble, he would pick the brain of fellow club member Ed Meyer, the former chief executive...
Applied Imagination (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
[23 November 2009 - Dana Foundation] Neuroeducation: Learning, Arts, and the Brain, the culmination of a summit sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University School of Education’s Neuro-Education Initiative, focuses on the convergence of neuroscientific research and teaching and learning, with an emphasis on the arts. This free publication features a prolegomenon by the late Dana Chairman William...
Underbelly (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... days, I am told, the term is worn with pride. See id. for "gooseberry lay." Accord , William Safire , with a cute anecdote about James Carville.
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... doing what they built their reputations doing—trying to putting the best words in the best order—William Safire and William F. Buckley struck me as pretty dreadful writers. Ah. My dislike for them isn’t personal, though I guess I had a (minor) run-in with Safire at least. After retiring from his New York Times column, Safire took a sinecure in the District of...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The phrase has been around for more than 500 years, according to a 2002 article by US columnist William Safire. Safire, who died in September, wrote: "Seized of, similar to seized with, takes us into legalism dating to feudal times. In 1477, William Caxton wrote of the hero Jason that his reward would be to 'be seased (seized) with the noble fliese (fleece) of gold'. The...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... with an emphasis on the arts. The book begins with an introduction by the late Dana Chairman William Safire. "A circuit has been forming over the past two decades, relatively unremarked, between cognitive neuroscience - the science of learning - and the practitioners of education," wrote Safire. "What was needed to close the knowledge circuit - to give a jolt of energy to the...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The book begins with an introduction by the late Dana Chairman William Safire. "A circuit has been forming over the past two decades, relatively unremarked, between cognitive neuroscience—the science of learning—and the practitioners of education," wrote Safire. "What was needed to close the knowledge circuit—to give a jolt of energy to the trend toward neuroeducation—was a field...
