Besides not getting a chance to bid Martina Navratilova farewell, this Open won't even have Ion Tiriac around to lend his brooding managerial presence and sagacious commentary.
This is what might be called the career-celebrating miscellany, in which some titan of a particular form wanders happily around the accumulated lumber of his lifelong engagement with literature, stopping every so often to pull out a particularly attractive item for his readers to stare at while dropping many a sagacious, edifying comment along the way.
This is sort of like alcohol and Oxycontin at the same time – what prompted our sagacious pal Warren Buffett to comment "I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system". in the Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE BRK.A) annual report for 2002!
"But," he commented in a deeply sagacious voice, "it was necessary for the military to intervene, otherwise, the Islamists would have come to power, and then Algeria would be in real trouble!" Of course, the coup that saved Algeria from the Islamists resulted in a civil war of horrific brutality that killed at least 100,000 people.
In all these areas, his commentary is sagacious and valuable.
"Some of the comments, compared with the actual facts, were found not to be so sagacious as they were supposed to be".
Theses are sagacious men.
Neither can I. Sagacious?
Here Sheehan is most sagacious.
For now, Mr. Herr's sagacious line "I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods" remains one of the most perceptive, and chilling, comments to date.
He's the star of Newsnight's credit-crunch discussions, the go-to guy for a sagacious economics quote for broadsheets' front-page leads, the man whom Tory Alan Duncan described as "the holy grail of economic comment these days".
