True Modesty
Safire on (hush hush) himself:
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The standard English synonym for the flip-flop verb is ''vacillate.'' A speechwriter in 1970, familiar with Vice President Spiro Agnew's attraction to alliteration, offered ''vicars of vacillation,'' a mouth-filling epithet with little punch.
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A speechwriter? Thou doth protest too much.
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The standard English synonym for the flip-flop verb is ''vacillate.'' A speechwriter in 1970, familiar with Vice President Spiro Agnew's attraction to alliteration, offered ''vicars of vacillation,'' a mouth-filling epithet with little punch.
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A speechwriter? Thou doth protest too much.
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