302 INDEX Bush, George, 23, 223, 239 Business <strong>writing</strong>, 166-78 Cab at the Door (Pritchett), 136 Canby, Henry Seidel, 103 Canfield, Dorothy, 103 Capote, Truman, 98 Careful Writer (Bernstein), 41 Caro, Robert A., 98 Cars<strong>on</strong>, Rachel, 98,159 Carter, Jimmy, 44 Casablanca (film), 199 Catch-22 (Heller), 209 Child, Julia, 84 Christiansen, D<strong>on</strong>ald, 161 Churchill, Winst<strong>on</strong>, 63, 239 Clarity, 9-12,166 editing for, 292 Clichés, 33-35, 236-37 in leads, 60 in travel <strong>writing</strong>, 117-18 Clines, Francis X., 258 Clinging to the Wreckage (Mortimer), 145-46 Clint<strong>on</strong>, Bill, 44 Clutter, 13-17 Col<strong>on</strong>, 74 Columnists, 206-7 Coming Into the Country (McPhee), 120-22 Compressi<strong>on</strong>, 165, 258-59, 265, 273 C<strong>on</strong>cept nouns, 76-77,172 C<strong>on</strong>crete details, 120,157,197 C<strong>on</strong>descensi<strong>on</strong>, 233,235 C<strong>on</strong>fidence, 20, 23, 30, 234, 245, 247,250, 289 C<strong>on</strong>tracti<strong>on</strong>s, 75 C<strong>on</strong>trol of humor, 212 of material, 52, 76 Coolidge, Calvin, 66 Corresp<strong>on</strong>dence business, 166-67 customer, 173-75 Creamer, Robert, 184 Credibility, 78 Criticism, 194-207 drama, 195 guidelines for, 196-99 humor in, 203 literary, 205-6 movies, 197,199-201 music, 202-3 televisi<strong>on</strong>, 201-2 Cross, Wilbur, 238,240, 242 Cuomo, Mario, 240 Curiosity, 249, 252-53 Darwin, Charles, 159 "Dating Your Mom" (Frazier), 224-25 Davies, Paul, 159 Dead Sea Scrolls, 62-63 Dean, John, 13,14 Definitiveness complex, 52 DeLillo, D<strong>on</strong>, 246 Dictati<strong>on</strong>, 78-79 Dicti<strong>on</strong>aries American Heritage, 39,42 New World, 35 syn<strong>on</strong>ym, 35-36,275 Third Internati<strong>on</strong>al, 41-42 Didi<strong>on</strong>, Joan, 60-61, 96,119-20 DiMaggio, Joe, 293-94 Do<strong>on</strong>esbury (comic strip), 209 Doughty, Charles, 279 Dr. Strangelove (film), 209 Drinking Life, A (Hamill), 136 Dys<strong>on</strong>, Freeman, 159 Ecclesiastes, 167 Editing, 9-12, 84-88. See also Re<strong>writing</strong>. Editors, 289-93 Educati<strong>on</strong> of Henry Adams (Adams), 140 Ego, 24,135,147 Eiseley, Loren, 158-59
Index 303 Eisenhower, Dwight, 239 Elements of Style (White), 36-37 Eliot, T S , 123, 205-6 Eloquence, 238-42 E-mail, 166 Endings, 64-67, 284 Energy, 89, 245, 289 Engelking, L L , 207 Enjoyment, 243-45 Enthusiasm, 52-53,117, 283 Ephr<strong>on</strong>, Nora, 221 Ethics m interviews, 108,111-15 in writer s intenti<strong>on</strong>, 263-64 Ethnicity, 107, 238, 242 Euphemisms, 14-15 Exaggerati<strong>on</strong>, 78 Exclamati<strong>on</strong> point, 72-73, 75 Exiles (Arlen), 136 "Eye of Edna" (White), 228 "Fables in Slang" (Ade), 215-17 Fad words, 16,43,169 Family history, 261 Faulkner, William, 199, 208 Faxes, 166 Fear of <strong>writing</strong>, 5,148-49,166, 245-48, 250 Feiffer, Jules, 208, 213 Fields, W C , 220 Fierce Attachments (Gornick), 136 Fire Next Time (Baldwin), 128-29 First-pers<strong>on</strong> voice, 21-22, 50 avoidance of, 23 Fleishman, Ernest B , 168-69 Focus, 259 Ford, Gerald R , 23 "For My Indian Daughter" (Johns<strong>on</strong>), 143-45 Four Feathers (film), 276 Fowler, H W,75 Fraser, Kennedy, 146-47 Frazier, Ian, 221, 224-25 Fnedan, Betty, 64 Friedman, Thomas L , 98 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 249 "Future of the Transistor" (Keyes), 160 Generalizati<strong>on</strong>s, 150,173, 289 in criticism, 197 Gibbs, Wolcott, 221 Ginsberg, Allen, 246 "Glad Rags" (Updike), 225-27 God and the New Physics (Davies), 159 G<strong>on</strong>e With the Wind (Mitchell), 103 Gornick, Vivian, 136 Gould, Stephen Jay, 159 Grammar, 234-35 See also Syntax Granta (magazine), 99 Grasso, Ella, 238-39 Grimes, Burleigh, 58, 59 Growing (Woolf), 136 Growing Up (Baker), 136 Haig, Alexander, 15-16 "Halfway to Dick and Jane" (Agueros), 123-24 Hamill, Pete, 136 Harding, Warren G , 66 Hard Times (Terkel), 106 Harper's (magazine), 98 Hart, Moss, 136 Haskell, Molly, 199 "Hassidic Tales" (Allen), 221 Hazlet<strong>on</strong>, Lesley, 188-90 Heller, Joseph, 209 Hemingway, Ernest, 40,50, 69,208 Hernd<strong>on</strong>, James, 30-32 Hoover, J Edgar, 226-27 Houseman, John, 136 "How Iraq Reverse-Engineered the Bomb" (Zorpette), 161-65 "How the Savings and Loans Were Saved" (Keillor), 223-24 How-to <strong>writing</strong>, 84,150
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