After-Orts #51
In one speech on foreign affairs he [then-U.S.-President Jimmy Carter] mentioned not only a military and a recent posture but ever increasing unity and understanding, a significant world impact, larger global roles, a new international order, democratic values, political and economic concerns, frequent consultations on many levels, our entire foreign policy apparatus, continuing contacts at all levels, closer and more creative relations, increased coordination among the industrialized democracies, multilateral trade negotiations, basic monetary adjustments, interactions among national economies, a creative partnership, basic global standards of human rights, our own basic ideals, the democratic process, the democratic concert of nations, the strategic umbrella, a pressing need, genuine North-South consultations, sharper confrontations, a more stable and just world order, a major effort, and global economic development.
-- Edwin Newman (1919-2010), A Civil Tongue (1976), chapter 7
I sometimes acted as cohost when Barbara Walters was the other cohost, but this can no longer happen because Miss Walters, in the summer of 1976, left her cohost copost at NBC to become a coanchor at ABC. It ended gracefully, at a farewell party, with cotoasts.
There were times when a cohost had little to do, partly because of the presence of the other cohost, and occasionally my mind turned to poetry, to Wordsworth and his cohost of golden daffodils. I also found myself thinking of the Atlantic Cohoast and the Pacific Cohoast, as well as the high cohost of living, and (this can become, as was said of the couple whose marriage had failed, a bad cohabit), when in a religious mood, of the Lord God of Cohosts. Also of a burglar's associate interrupted in flagrante delicto: "Aha! Cohort in the act!"
-- Edwin Newman, A Civil Tongue, chapter 8
A hidden haiku (via a bot that scans the NYT for haiku) from a NYT article about a boxing match, September 11, 2021, for which Donald Trump provided live commentary:
Of course it was a
circus—the kind that makes sense
in boxing these days.
https://nyti.ms/3leBqLv