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It ill behooves me, excoriated recently as enamored of the “cheap larf,” to criticize Safire's arch puns, which permeate—“enliven” is probably the word his editor would use—his articles, but I find some kinds of humor unsuitable for reading, however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce . A handful of examples, from the book at hand:
From what you might call the internationalist anti-WTO perspective, though, there's a real paradox here, since the WTO is simultaneously excoriated for being a kind of supranational government smashing down local regulations and excoriated for not being enough of a supranational government to create global living and working standards.
The behavior he is now being excoriated for was not Orwellian, in the sense of 1984 's world of inverted truth--but Orwell-like, meaning that it was in keeping with a career based on political courage and intellectual integrity.
What we seem to be living through right now is a strange time in which the market is simultaneously being excoriated as overvalued and hysterical and being described as being in a slump that forebodes bad things ahead.
Graham's daughter Lally Weymouth compared Felsenthal to Joe McCarthy in the Post op-ed pages, and son Donald Graham excoriated the author on the New York Times Book Review letters page.