George Butler, who is making a documentary about Sen. John Kerry, says Kerry’s thoughtful In honor of President’s Day, it’s time to point out that Cameron Kerry’s role will either be Other pet language peeves? How about “kick off”? Football and soccer begin with a kick-off, This is not to prize narrow rules of grammar and usage above all else. The vitality of the George Butler, who is making a documentary about Sen. John Kerry, says Kerry’s thoughtful younger brother Cameron “will have a very central role in any Kerry administration.” Provided, of course, that Kerry wins the Democratic presidential nomination and the general election. In honor of President’s Day, it’s time to point out that Cameron Kerry’s role […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-97","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nyounger brother Cameron “will have
\nProvided, of course, that Kerry wins the Democratic presidential nomination and the general
\nelection. <\/P>
\n
\ncentral or not. It cannot be “very central.” There can be no degrees of “central,” just as there can
\nno degrees of “unique,” as in
\n
\nnot races and campaigns — as in
\nor parades, speeches, protests, deals, meetings, plans, days, nights, contests, or anything
\nelse. And how about
\nthe end of the day”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>? Isn’t it time to bag that phrase? Or does
\neverybody who uses it really want to sound like a Hollywood jerk? (Besides, have you ever heard
\nmore
\n
\nlanguage depends on change and flexibility, and also accuracy of expression. The author
\nNelson Algren once described his disagreement with a publisher this way: “I was adamant. He
\nwas adamanter.” That’s a violation of the rules, but it’s pure poetry.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"