Word: wordsmiths
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...Jesus cannot be reduced to a wordsmith in the marketplace, spinning little aphorisms and telling funny stories," he announces. Building on previous work by the historian E.P. Sanders stressing Jesus' place within 1st century Judaism, Wright concludes that the Gospels provide sufficient evidence to deduce not just a wandering sage who was crucified for reasons unclear, but a prophet who announced a coming Kingdom of God and died for it; and that this framework in turn clarifies "dozens of examples where the details fall into place." Specifically, his book will state that Jesus' trial, the fact that he claimed...
...speechwriter in Richard Nixon's White House in 1971, served as communications director to Gerald Ford and was what several Bush loyalists described as a "fair-weather friend" in 1980. As assistant to chief of staff James Baker in the Reagan White House, Gergen emerged as a skilled wordsmith and political strategist, helping design the 100-day plan for winning Reagan's revolutionary tax cuts. Gergen aggressively courted reporters and earned a reputation as a world-class leaker, but nonetheless lost a contest with deputy press secretary Larry Speakes to be Reagan's top spokesman. Distrusted by the harder-line...
...stability-impaired wordsmith we met 15 years ago in author Friedman's earlier novel About Harry Towns is still frisky, still foolish. Still capable, in fact, of careering into a writers' bar in lower Manhattan wearing, because of a recent mugging, only a sheet, and this early in a long evening. Friedman is funny and reliably irrelevant. Writing, he seems to be saying, is less dignified than the mail-order truss business, which is a truth on which to hang your...
...appeal is simple, direct, visceral. Us vs. Them. The Haves vs. the Have-Nots. The cry has a long and honorable history among Democratic presidential candidates. Dukakis' populist pitch began as far back as Labor Day, when he delivered a speech shaped by Bob Shrum, the veteran Democratic wordsmith who had designed Dick Gephardt's populist incarnation. Lee Atwater, George Bush's pugnacious campaign manager, admits, "I got a little worried after the Labor Day speech that they were going to catch on to the populist approach." But only last week did the Dukakis campaign go ballistic. "George Bush wants...
Jose Canseco, 24, the 6-ft. 3-in., 230-lb. Cuban (who, Detroit wordsmith Sparky Anderson says, "is built like a Greek goddess") homered in all the other games and persisted in stealing bases too. His 40-40 distinction in those cross categories ought to combine with Hershiser's record 59 zeroes to make quite a noise. In these anabolic times, a Washington reporter with only the evidence of his eyes has been able to incite chants of "ster-oids, ster- oids" in the bleacher sections around Canseco. But Jose has the grace to grin and make a muscle...