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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...delight in the English language. He runs words through his fingers like doubloons. He likes to superimpose a trelliswork of formulations from the Greek or Latin (grids of the apodictic, the epistemological, the asymptotic) upon the subject at hand. Lacking the Latinate, he goes to the Latin - "pari passu," "tu quoque." Either you enjoy these linguistic plumage displays, as I do, or else you think he is merely showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Lose a Great Speaker, We Gain a Great Book | 5/24/2000 | See Source »

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