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She goes out of her way not to be a phrasemaker; much of her writing has the murmury, urgent, working-it-out-in-real-time quality of someone writing by hand on a bouncy bus.

The reporter Earl Mazo described the “phrasemaker” Reece as drawing applause at the 1948 Convention “when he ripped into what he calls the ‘Democrat party’ with lacerating wordage.”

That mysterious, koan-like statement by the theorist and legendary phrasemaker John Archibald Wheeler of Princeton has stood for half a century as one of the brute pillars of modern physics.

You’re quite the phrasemaker: “I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.”

Choice phrasemaker and Hackney laureate Sinclair ventures to the US on the trail of the Beats.