What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial.

Another book on language was The New Language of Politics (1968) which developed into what Zimmer called Safire's "magnum opus" Safire's Political Dictionary. Life and career
Safire was born William Lewis Safir in New York City New York the son of Ida (née Panish) and Oliver Craus Safir. His family was Jewish and originated in Romania on his father's side.

William Lewis Safire (/ˈsæfaɪər/; December 17 1929 – September 27 2009) was an American author columnist journalist and presidential speechwriter.