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 The English Language according to Lord William Aug 28, 2009
The final word(s) castigating the dumbing down of America by the double digit, Ayn Rand fueled, self absorbed, Mormon infused nitwit conservative element by the last conservative thinking human with an operating frontal lobe. Certainly not the intent of the book, but how it stands up now, after 8 years of W, 16 years of Limbaugh and an eternity of inbred imbecility should inspire all and any to raise the level of discourse as Buckley sought to, whether or not you agree with him on any given issue. I remember watching Firing Line as a kid and felt inspired to run to the dictionary whenever Buckley and Vidal squared off.
Never got that inspired in any language again until I encountered Heidegger.
When I Want To Bring Back WFB ..... Jan 06, 2009
Just received the book and WOW! I always watched his show and tried to watch him whenever he was on at other times. Anyone that was with me cringed when I watched him but .... their loss! When I read the words and where he used them I can picture him in his chair, leaning back and finding the correct word before putting his sentence together. A recent Vanity Fair issue had some great insight to him and his wife. What a man!
Now I have to get the dvds to get what the book can't give ....... the "expressions" to go with the words!
Like a previous review, I too wish the pronunciations would have been included in the book. Lexicons will STILL be a dictionary for me.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Great book, but... Oct 09, 2008
Ok great book, great man, incredible and renowned command of the English language, but what in the WORLD was he thinking by not adding the PRONUNCIATIONS????? GROAN. Terrible oversight. Almost hard to believe this could be overlooked. This book would have been a BIBLE of sorts to me if it showed pronunciations. Now I am forced to go look up the pronunciation every time I find a new word I like. Sigh.
5 of 8 found the following review helpful:
A Real Treasure Jul 06, 2005
This witty, neat little book is the perfect gift for word-lovers of all ages. I am a college professor, and a published author, and this book has really helped me in my writing. If only I could speak as well as Buckley does...
15 of 70 found the following review helpful:
utterly usable,licentious miscibles of miso-communist Sep 07, 2001
Buckley has fashioned yet another utterly usable list stoppage, badinage of detritus waiting in abeyance for the vagaries of postmodernities force fields to scour through yet another product emanation from an impeccable vainglorious watchdog for the Ruling Classes. The predictable augurs,tail wagging, arbiter elegantiae, his indolence doesn't quite proceed to the corruptible USA Senators. We have provincial sentence examples of humorous references to the rogues gallery of the communist world but his spleen venting abruptly halts itself at the shores of the Potomac. I can see/envisioned Buckley's upbeat brow turned upwards,ad spasmistaie towards the heavens,fully content with his own conceit, his odious animus against all that doesn't strike,agree,conspire congruently with capitalistic content,its resonant free world peel of greed bells.
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