[Buddha-l] Vajrayana on buddha in the Buddha (Mitchell Ginsberg)

[Dan Lusthaus]

>> the late William Safire.
>
> When was he ever late?

Safire would have been the perfect person to ask when and how "late" came to 
be applied to deceased persons.

As for whether the original quote uses "negativity" or "negativism," one can 
find both "attested" on web resources.

For "negativity" see
http://tinyurl.com/yk34lk9

For "negativism" see
http://tinyurl.com/yhwk9m9

Anyone have the actual tape of Agnew's speech?

Agnew, with a law background, did make his own contribution to the cultural 
discourse when he brought a legal locution into common parlance. He was the 
first holder of high office in the US to be forced to resign due to legal 
prosecutions (a prelude to the Watergate scandal and Nixon's own exit from 
office, and how Gerry Ford, to fill Agnew's void, got into the White House 
without being elected either President or Vice-President, another first). 
While normally one responds to charges with either "guitly" or "not guilty", 
Agnew pleaded "nolo contendre" (which is Sanskrit for "Sure I did it, but 
you can't make me say so in public", often mistranslated as "no contest"). 
Ever since, people from all walks of life have been using nolo contendre for 
everything from traffic tickets to class D felonies. See 
http://tinyurl.com/yj29b3y

Dan