Sabbath Gasbags, Speak Up by Calvin Trillin
Nearly a week after the television news coverage of Memorial Day, Im still thinking about how much I envy Tom Brokaw for having managed to slip a phrase into the language. He slipped in the greatest generation. Ive never slipped in anything. . .
Recently, I tried The Times again. Describing the tendency of older mens hindquarters to flatten out, I spoke of a condition called D.T.S. Disappearing Tush Syndrome and mentioned that it could cause an otherwise respectable senior citizen to walk right out of his pants. So far, nobody else has mentioned D.T.S. Still, theres time. In my optimistic moments, I envision NBC calling Tom Brokaw back to lead its Memorial Day coverage in Washington next year. As I said on one of the Sabbath gasbag shows yesterday, Brokaw says, when I see these World War II veterans returning to the nations capital for this ceremony, I know that though stooped, though gray, though suffering from D.T.S. they remain the greatest generation.
Calvin Trillin, a contributor to The New Yorker, is the author, most recently, of Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/opinion/sunday/sabbath-gasbags-speak-up.html?hp
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)to bad he`s not on the tube anymore.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)His poetry is fun and obviously that's what he wants to do now. But his articles on food/"the provinces"/politics/pop culture
enriched readers for decades. I still yearn to go to Arthur Bryant's.
Deacon Blue
(252 posts)And others who suffer from DGS?
"King of the Hill" Hank's Back Story (TV episode 2001) - IMDb
www.imdb.com/title/tt0620230/
Rating: 8/10 - 52 votes
Hank must wear a prosthesis when he is diagnosed with Diminished Gluteal Syndrome.