The New, Old, And Constantly Changing Language

After Eating, An Epicure Gives A Thin Smile Of Satisfaction; A Gastronome, Burping Into His Napkin, Praises The Food In A Magazine; A Gourmet, Repressing His Burp, Criticizes The Food In The Same Magazine; A Gourmand Belches Happily And Tells Everybody Where He Ate; A Glutton Empraces The White Porcelain Alter, Or More Plainly, He Barfs.

Adapt Your Style, If You Wish, To Admit The Color Of Slang Or Freshness Of Neologism, But Hang Tough On Clarity, Precision, Structure, Grace.

The Remarkable Legion Of The Unremarked, Whose Individual Opinions Are Not Colorful Or Different Enough To Make News, But Whose Collective Opinion, When Crystallized, Can Make History.

Cast Aside Any Column About Two Subjects. It Means The Pundit Chickened Out On The Hard Decision About What To Write About That Day.

To Be Accused Of 'channeling' Is To Be Dismissed As A Ventriloquist's Live Dummy, Derogated At Not Having A Mind Of One's Own.