A Civil Tongue

Newman, Edwin

ISBN 10: 0672522675 / ISBN 13: 9780672522673

Verlag: Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1976

This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0001182432

Inhaltsangabe:

When Edwin Newman was but a lad, bright, cheery, and unbearable, he was told to keep a civil tongue in his head, i.e., shut up. He did, but since then he has expanded his understanding of what a civil tongue means. To him it means a language that is not bogged down in jargon, not studded with trick phrases, not weighed down with gelatinous verbiage of Washington and the social sciences. It is direct, specific, concrete, vigorous, colorful, subtle, and imaginative, and as lucid and eloquent as we are able to make it. A smog of jargon is settling on our fair land. Newman blows it away with sweet reason and sour comments. A Civil Tongue is high comedy in a serious cause.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Civil Tongue
Verlag: Bobbs-Merrill Co
Erscheinungsdatum: 1976
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Acceptable