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Jan/Feb 2009
What's a Yalie?
Pop quiz: what's a Yalie? We use the term routinely in the Yale Alumni Magazine, as shorthand for "any Yale student, alumnus, or alumna." But...
Nov/Dec 2008
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In this column and the next, I turn from quotations per se to the coining of words. Yale neologists have made huge contributions to our vocabulary...
Sep/Oct 2008
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There are often three stages of knowledge about a famous quotation. The first level is the commonly accepted popular attribution. The second level...
Jul/Aug 2008
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The principal theme of these columns is the slipperiness of quotation attribution. Popular quotation lore, and often the standard quotation...
Jul/Aug 2008
Who wrote the Serenity Prayer?
At the beginning of this millennium, the editors of the World Almanac selected what they thought to be "the most memorable quotes by Americans in...
May/Jun 2008
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More on "Murphy's Law" In my July/August 2007 column, I examined the origins of "Murphy's Law" -- "Anything that can go wrong, will" -- and...
Mar/Apr 2008
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In quotation research, discovery is a continuing process and a collaborative one. Every week brings breakthroughs from my own investigations and...
Mar/Apr 2008
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CCL: gone but not forgotten The article about the reopened Cross Campus Library ("This is CCL?" January/February) reminded me of my work there as a...
Jan/Feb 2008
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In the Yale Book of Quotations, I sought to bring a new kind of research to the quotations field by questioning all received wisdom about the...
Jan/Feb 2008
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Blue and green In your environmental section ("Yale's Big Green Experiment," November/December), Dean Speth states that the next step "requires a...
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