Good enough for Jesus
Charlotte Brewer, 25 January 1990
The State of the Language: 1990 Edition
edited by Christopher Ricks and Leonard Michaels.
Faber, 531 pp., £17.50, January 1990,9780571141821 Show More
edited by Christopher Ricks and Leonard Michaels.
Faber, 531 pp., £17.50, January 1990,
Clichés and Coinages
by Walter Redfern.
Blackwell, 305 pp., £17.50, October 1989,0 631 15691 7 Show More
by Walter Redfern.
Blackwell, 305 pp., £17.50, October 1989,
Rhetoric: The Wit of Persuasion
by Walter Nash.
Blackwell, 241 pp., £25, October 1989,0 631 16754 4 Show More
by Walter Nash.
Blackwell, 241 pp., £25, October 1989,
“... perhaps, is that the 1980s were judged by the two editors, Leonard Michaels and Christopher Ricks, to be likely to rate correctness of language above its political and social implications, while the 1990s will reverse these priorities. There is little point in taking issue with this, since in practice such divisions don’t hold fast: most of the ... ”