Fred Shapiro subbing for Safire in NYT

[Grant Barrett]

Fred Shapiro is filling in for William Safire in the New York Times
Magazine this weekend:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/magazine/27wwwl-guestsafire-t.html

For better or worse, our culture relies on quotations — literary
passages, Bible verses, movie lines, song lyrics, catchphrases,
proverbs — to transmit the wit and wisdom of the past and the present
and to lend resonance to our everyday discourse. Perhaps the most
important are the political quotes, the sound bites, slogans, zingers
and bloopers that can win or lose elections and shape our arguments
and opinions.

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

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