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Terry Anderson, the journalist who was held hostage for seven years in Lebanon. Anderson often “quotes Nietze.” The gloomy German was Friedrich Nietzsche. The name comes from his father, who was Mr. Nietzsche.
Onward! Or rather “forward!” Lots of writers foul out on this one. The AP reported last July that astronaut Alan Shepard had written a boolf “with a forward by Neil Armstrong.” In the Chicago Tribune a columnist reviewed “The Haldeman Diaries." Stephen Ambrose “wrote the^book’s forward ahd afterward.” Gentlemen, those are forewords and afterwords! One word comes before, the other word comes after. All clear?
Rural train of thought: The American Legion magazine once observed that in the ‘30s and ‘40s, “labor unions had a hay day.” That spelling makes a certain sense, for farmers make hay on days when the sun shines, but what the unions hid
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