Safire to address ‘Washington and the World’

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Commentator William Safire visits Monday.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator William Safire visits Indiana University to talk about “What’s Going to Happen in Washington and the World?” at 7 p.m. Monday, March 24, at Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union.

Safire’s visit marks the second of three School of Journalism spring Speakers Series events. Former CNN broadcaster Andrea Koppel spoke in February and presidential historian Michael Beschloss visits next month.

Journalism students may know Safire’s work from his current work, a regular column for The New York Times Magazine, “On Language,” which focuses on etymology and other language usage topics. He has also written 10 books on the English language.

From 1972 to 2005, Safire wrote a political column for the opinion pages of The New York Times. While at The Times, Safire won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize in the commentary category for “Carter’s Broken Lance,” about Bert Lance, who served as director of the Office of Management and the Budget for President Jimmy Carter and later resigned from his post.

As with all of the Speaker Series events, Safire’s talk is free and open to the public.


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