farewell perspicacious mind
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Who writes this stuff? Do ya' think they actual use 'perspicacious' in everday conversation?
Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 -- 11:25 AM ET
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William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead at 82
William F. Buckley Jr., who marshaled polysyllabic
exuberance, famously arched eyebrows and a refined,
perspicacious mind to elevate conservatism to the center of
American political discourse, died Wednesday at his home in
Stamford, Conn.
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Vaughn Tolle said:
Likely not; but be assured Mr. Buckley likely did. In a letter to me while I was in Basic Training, my wife used "perspicacious" in a letter. I'd not been exposed to that particular adjective, so there I am, in a barracks with 47 other basic trainees, trying to find a dictionary... The good old days.
Vaughn Tolle said:
Tracy, that word is an elegant way to say "shrewd"; OK, not a great, clarifying definition, but I think it'll do, without resort to a dictionary (or, in the spirit of this thread, should I say a "lexicon"?).
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