He is the dapper, debonair Steve Ross, above, who is about to make autumn in New York the stuff of songwriters' dreams by opening an engagement tomorrow at the Stanhope Park Hyatt Hotel, on 81st Street just across Fifth Avenue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Social media opens these engagements in distributed and interconnected forms.
"Today, the dominant desire is for open engagement".
"The open engagement of Hezbollah into this Syria crisis is very, very worrisome," he said at the united Nations headquarters in New York.
Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, who have been held without bail at a maximum security prison since they staged an open engagement ceremony in December, will be sentenced tomorrow.
I took the Martin episode as an indication that they are willing to respond to any open engagement, but not to make unforced concessions in the current climate.
History thus confirms that what will best counter "Islamic extremism" – if that is even the role of the state – is open engagement, debate and more and more sunlight.
President Barack Obama's policy of open engagement with America's adversaries faces its first real test at the G20 summit in London this week during which he will hold private meetings with Russian and Chinese leaders.
The piece is also in large measure a history of the evolution of the climate-change-sceptic movement, and the Columbia Journalism Review commends it as the kind of open engagement with an ongoing public debate that should serve as a model.
