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308 INDEX<br />
Thoms<strong>on</strong>, Virgil, 41,244<br />
Thoreau, Henry David, 8, 69,128,<br />
136-37,140<br />
Thurber, James, 69,149, 229,234<br />
Transiti<strong>on</strong>s, 56<br />
editing of, 86, 291<br />
mood changers for, 74-75<br />
Travel <strong>writing</strong>. See Place.<br />
Trillin, Calvin, 221<br />
Trudeau, Garry, 209,213<br />
Truman (McCullough), 98<br />
Trust, 78, 277<br />
Tuchman, Barbara W., 39<br />
Twain, Mark, 130, 214<br />
Ulam, S. M., 159<br />
Understatement, 53, 73,277<br />
Unity, 49-54<br />
Updike, John, 183-84, 225-27<br />
Upholsterers (Lardner), 217<br />
Usage, 38-46<br />
American Heritage panel for, 39,<br />
42-44<br />
Verbs, 68-69<br />
active, 68,289<br />
nouns as, 33,44<br />
Vidal, Gore, 206<br />
Voice, 233-44,291<br />
banality, 233-38<br />
eloquence, 238-42<br />
Voyage of the Beagle (Darwin), 159<br />
Vulnerability, 146,168<br />
Walden (Thoreau), 8,128,136-37,<br />
140<br />
Walker in the City (Kazin), 139-40<br />
Wallace, David Foster, 245<br />
Watergate, 45<br />
Weap<strong>on</strong>s and Hope (Dys<strong>on</strong>), 159<br />
Webster, H. T., 244<br />
Webster's New World Dicti<strong>on</strong>ary, 35<br />
Webster's Third New Internati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
Dicti<strong>on</strong>ary, 41-42<br />
Weinberger, Caspar, 23<br />
Welty, Eudora, 136-38<br />
"Which," "that" vs., 75-76<br />
White, E. B., 214,215,234-35,238<br />
Elements of Style, 36-37<br />
"Eye of Edna," 228<br />
"The Hen (An Appreciati<strong>on</strong>),"<br />
27-28<br />
White, William Allen, 103<br />
Whitman, Walt, 140<br />
Will, George E, 183<br />
Williams, Ted, 59,183-84<br />
Willie and Dwike (Zinsser), 107,<br />
233,284<br />
Wills, Gary, 96<br />
Wils<strong>on</strong>, Edmund, 62-63,99<br />
Wils<strong>on</strong>, Woodrow, 29<br />
Winchell, Walter, 221<br />
Wolfe, Tom, 19, 64,96,115,125-26,<br />
197,245, 289<br />
Woman Warrior (Kingst<strong>on</strong>), 142-43<br />
Woolf, Le<strong>on</strong>ard, 136<br />
Woolf, Virginia, 97,146<br />
Word(s), 33-37<br />
Word processing, 88-89<br />
Writer s block, 22-23<br />
Years of Lynd<strong>on</strong> Johns<strong>on</strong> (Caro), 98<br />
You Know Me, Al (Lardner), 217<br />
Young, Chic, 214, 228,248<br />
Zinsser, William<br />
American Places, 129-32<br />
"Block That Chickenfurter," 56-58<br />
"News From Timbuktu," 266-83<br />
Spring Training, 90-92, 247<br />
"Thank God for Nuts," 58<br />
Willie and Dwike, 107, 233, 284<br />
Writing to Learn, 284<br />
Zorpette, Glenn, 161-65