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Mar/Apr 2013
You can quote them: The full monty
In my last column I wrote about the cryptic origins of the widespread phrase “the whole nine yards.” This is the best-known of a class...
Mar/Apr 2013
What’s old is new again
Thank you for the charming article about Manson Whitlock’s typewriter shop (“Many Happy Returns,” January/February). I probably...
May/Jun 2013
You can quote them: Elementary, my dear reader
Any discussion of the quotations of Sherlock Holmes must begin with the Great Misquotation. Ranking with the famous but erroneous “Beam me up...
Sep/Oct 2013
You can quote them: New Haven firsts
The list of “firsts” claimed for New Haven is astoundingly long. Wikipedia lists, to name only a few, the first cotton gin, telephone...
Nov/Dec 2013
Legal prose and verborrhea
Perhaps the greatest iconoclast in the history of legal education was Yale Law School professor Fred Rodell ’31LLB. Rodell had many critical...
Jan/Feb 2014
The college in Singapore
Your description of Yale-NUS College and its new curriculum warms the heart (“The Founding,” November/December). In our rapid-turnover...
Mar/Apr 2014
Sayings of the south
The opera ain’t over Even in the era before Internet memes, mass media sometimes propagated memorable phrases like wildfire. During the 1978...
April 29 2014
Who wrote the Serenity Prayer? Looks like Niebuhr after all
“John Maynard Keynes is said to have made a wonderful comment when he was accused of inconsistency of opinions over time,” Fred Shapiro...
Jul/Aug 2014
Updates
Niebuhr probably wrote Serenity Prayer after all Six years ago in an article for this magazine (“Who Wrote the Serenity Prayer?”...
Jul/Aug 2014
They didn’t say it first
More famous quotations are anonymous than you think. We’re not referring here to the likes of “To be or not to be” or...
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