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Mar/Apr 2012
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From boilerplate to make a federal case out of it to indict a ham sandwich, law-related language reflects law’s...
March 20 2012
Thumbs up?
The phrase “rule of thumb” has become a feminist taboo because, we’ve been told, it derives from a legal ruling that a man could beat his wife with...
Jul/Aug 2008
It takes a master to make a masterpiece
Fred Shapiro’s researches into the pre-1943 citations of something like the Serenity Prayer are governed, he acknowledges, by the power...
May/Jun 2012
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The Ivy League is an odd institution, a grouping of colleges that was based entirely on football rivalries but has assumed enormous academic...
Jul/Aug 2012
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Yale, eugenics, and history Congratulations to Richard Conniff for his comprehensive and thought-provoking article on the eugenics movement in...
Jul/Aug 2012
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Advertising slogans, folk songs, nursery rhymes, proverbs, and television catchphrases are not usually treated as “quotations,” but in...
Jul/Aug 2012
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The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global EconomyOxford University Press, $29.95Philip Auerswald ’88...
Sep/Oct 2012
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In two previous columns, I’ve written about “quotation magnets”—people to whom memorable sayings are attributed...
Nov/Dec 2012
Recent alumni deaths
’37BE Robert L. Kelly. August 16, 2012 ’37LLB Harold L. Warner Jr. August 29, 2012 ’38 George J. Goldberg. August 10, 2012...
Jan/Feb 2013
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Anyone who studies quotations and phraseology often sees a phenomenon I hereby dub “phrase inflation”: in expressions that use a number...
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