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A Civil Tongue
Category: History: Language
Author: Edwin Newman
Copyright/published Year: 1986 by Bobbs-Merrill
ISBN: 0672522675
Binding: hardcover
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.
Condition Information
This is a used book.
Very good condition.
Condition Description
1976 Hardcover. VG Jacket with no tears, small (under 1/8" chip) on lower front. Text is unmarked. Sound square binding. NO remainder marks.
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