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Calling Sebastianaro Timpanaro! NYT misspells “euphemisms” in Safire obit:

(The context suggests it was a joke rather than a typo? They corrected it.)

Innocent mistake or Freudian mise-en-abyme in which NYT copy editors exact posthumous revenge on the in-house father of language?