Cronkitiana, Cronkiter/Kronkiter and anchorman refer to Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (1916-2009), the man behind the desk at CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/us/18cronkite.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
In Sweden, TV news anchors are called "Kronkiters," in Holland, "Cronkiters."
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/133114259
The Beatles were on CBS News before the Ed Sullivan Show.
"On Nov. 22, 1963, the "CBS Morning News" aired a piece about the Beatles," Katie Couric explained. "Because President Kennedy died, it never made air that night. Later in December, Walter decided to run the piece because he thought this was the time when Americans needed to be uplifted." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/19/broadcasts/main5173249_page3.shtml
"We were offered a piece from our London Bureau of this phenomenon," Cronkite said. "So we put it on the air one night." That night was December 10, 1963. The Beatles had already sold 2.5 million records. "What has occurred to you as why you've succeeded?" asked the reporter. "I don't know, really, you know, as you say, the haircuts," Paul McCartney responded.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/18/eveningnews/main5172519.shtml

UBS AG's (UBS) high-profile spat with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has made some of Switzerland's other banks wary of looking after U.S.-based clients, prompting some to stop taking money from Americans altogether and menacing the country's image as a private banking center. UBS is currently locked in talks with the IRS which wants access to 52,000 client accounts in a moved aimed at rooting out possible tax fraud, possibly breaching Switzerland's own banking secrecy laws. Analysts expect UBS to pay a hefty settlement to resolve the matter before it goes to court, thereby protecting the identities of its clients. But no matter what the outcome, some Swiss private banks now regard U.S.-based clients as an expensive liability.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090720-702945.html

Bear Run is a creek in eastern Fayette County, Pa., in the Allegheny Mountains and a part of the southeastern Pittsburgh metro area. It flows from Laurel Hill, dropping almost 1,500 feet to the Youghiogheny River. In places it flows through the brown and grey horizontal strata of weathered sandstone and, at a certain location, falls more than 20 feet from an outcropping of cantilevered rock in a dramatic waterfall.
http://info.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek09/0717/0717rc_fallingwater.cfm
One of the best-known houses in the world was built to take advantage of this natural feature. Thanks, Paul.

The tallest building in the Western Hemisphere was renamed Willis Tower on July 16. Opened in 1973 as Sears Tower, the 110-story glass and steel structure soars to 1,450 feet (442 meters). Willis Tower will be one of Willis’ three largest office locations, alongside New York and London. The company will occupy more than 140,000 square feet (13,000 square meters) of space in the building when nearly 500 Associates move in this summer from five area offices. At the ceremony, Willis presented a check for $100,000 to Chicago Cares, the city’s premier volunteer organization. Willis’ Chicago-area Associates have pledged thousands of hours of their time to serving the community. The company is also making a $100,000 donation to Chicago 2016 to support the bid to bring the Olympic Games to the city. Willis Group Holdings Limited is a leading global insurance broker, developing and delivering professional insurance, reinsurance, risk management, financial and human resource consulting and actuarial services to corporations, public entities and institutions around the world. Willis has more than 400 offices in nearly 120 countries, with a global team of approximately 20,000 Associates serving clients in some 190 countries. Additional information on Willis may be found at www.willis.com. Information about the building can be found at www.willistower.com. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/tallest-building-in-western-hemisphere-is-renamed-willis-tower,894066.shtml

You know the word overjoyed—you may also use underjoyed and joyed. (People might laugh.)

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July 20 is the birthday of Petrarch, (books by this author) born in Arezzo, Italy (1304). There's a sonnet form named after him, the Petrarchan sonnet, also called the Italian sonnet. Petrarch did not actually invent the form that bears his name: It was widely in use by the time he started composing these poems of 14 lines with a distinct rhyme scheme. The first sonnets on record were written about 75 years before Petrarch was born, by a Sicilian lawyer named Giacomo da Lentino, who was a royal notary and senior poet in the court of King Frederick II (the 13th-century king of Sicily, king of Germany, and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire). It was Giacomo da Lentino who first took the eight-line stanza of Sicilian peasant songs (which had a rhyme of abab abab) and fused an additional six-line stanza to the end. For the sestet*, he always used the rhyming cde cde pattern.
Soon others were imitating this new poetic form that Giacomo da Lentino had invented, including the Holy Roman Emperor himself. Writing sonnets became all the rage among the literati and intellectuals around the royal court, and the trend soon spread outside of this elite subculture. The octet of the Italian sonnet evolved into the abba abba scheme, called "the kissing rhyme" in Italian. Da Lentino's sestet remained the same. But it was Petrarch who really perfected the sonnet form that bears his name. He's most famous for his sonnets about Laura, a mysterious woman whom he adored. Chaucer translated some of Petrarch's sonnets into English, but in the translation he didn't preserve Petrarch's rhyme scheme or even the 14 line structure. In fact, he took 21 lines to translate Petrarch's Canzoniere 132, which Chaucer then embedded into own long epic poem, Troilus and Criseyde. Petrarch's sonnet appears as a love song that Troilus sings for his beloved. It misled the English for hundreds of years. "Sonnet" first entered English lexicon meaning "a short poem about love" and was interchangeable with the word "song," the meaning of which has also evolved. It wasn't until 1575 that "sonnet" took on the very specific meaning that it has today. Elizabethan critic George Gascoigne wrote a stern treatise entitled "Certayne Notes of Instruction Concerning the Making of Verse or Ryme in English" (1575), in which he professed: "Then have you Sonets, some thinke that all Poemes (being short) may be called Sonets, as in deede it is a diminutive worde derived of Sonare, but yet I can beste allowe to call those Sonets which are fouretene lynes, every line conteyning tenne syllables. The firse twelve do ryme in staves of four lines by crosse meetre, and the last twoo ryming togither do conclude the whole." The Writer’s Almanac
* A group of six lines of poetry, especially the last six lines ... refer to a stanza of six lines (also called a sexain, sextain, or sextet). Italian sestetto, from sesto, sixth, from Latin sextus. http://www.answers.com/topic/sestet