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The Harpers Monthly • 159 Years, 1,819 Issues, 37,049 Articles, 242,748pp
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Books: The Word Police
What's the Good Word?, by William Safire
by Hugh Kenner
The Harpers Monthly, June 1982, pp. 68-70
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Reviewed Books and Films
  1. What's the Good Word? (1982)
    William Safire
    3 Reviews, 2 Readable
  2. American Tongue and Cheek (1981)
    Jim Quinn and Benjamin DeMott
    A Populist Guide to Our Language
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  3. I Always Look Up the Word "Egregious" (1982)
    Maxwell Nurnberg
    1 Review
  4. The Book of Jargon (1982)
    Don Ethan Miller
    1 Review
  5. Word Laird (1981)
    Charlton Laird
    1 Review
  6. Have a Word on Me (1982)
    Willard R. Espy
    A Celebration of Language
    1 Review
  7. Say It My Way (1981)
    Willard R. Espy
    How to Avoid Certain Pitfalls of Spoken English, Together with a Decidedly In...
    1 Review
  8. Science Observed (1982)
    Jeremy Bernstein
    1 Review
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