biography
pronunciation:
[safiyr]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1929– )
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| biography:
| Journalist, born in New York City, New York, USA. A former speechwriter and public relations writer, and special assistant to President Richard Nixon, he became a Washington-based columnist for the New York Times (1973) and won a 1978 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. A language buff, he also took on a weekly column devoted to verbal oddities. |
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