"60 Minutes" correspondent Morley Safer died on May 19, 2016 of pneumonia at the age of 84. Safer originally gained fame for his reports from Vietnam, but he became a television personality when he joined "60 Minutes" in 1970. Safer profiled things that interested him, often taking viewers into the art world or profiling the powerful. Here are ten vocabulary words from quotes from Morley Safer, including a taste of the honest, opinionated reporting which endeared him to so many.
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