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Article: William Safire, 79, authority on words, bare-knuckled pundit on politics
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2009
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WASHINGTON - William Safire, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
and language maven for The New York Times, whose penchant for the
barbed and memorable phrase first manifested itself in speeches he
wrote for the Nixon White House, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer
at a hospice in Rockville, Md. He was 79.
For more than three decades, Mr. Safire wrote twice weekly as the
resident conservative columnist on the Times op-ed page. He also
wrote the popular "On Language" column in the New York Times Sunday
Magazine, exploring grammar, usage, and the origin of words. The
column led to the publication of more than a dozen books about words
and language.
He arrived at the Times in 1973, fresh from ...