Word: pundit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experiment," Pundit Walter Lippmann stayed away from the convention for the first time in as long as he can remember, relying on a borrowed TV set for his coverage. But Lippmann, like many another TV-viewer, also leaned heavily on the work of hundreds of newspaper reporters. Throughout the convention, soaring newspaper sales indicated that TV probably whets the appetite for newspaper news, rather than dulls it. Said Editor Louis Seltzer, putting his finger on the big flaw in TV coverage alone: "The people at the convention can't tell what's happening without expert advice, and neither...
...department was looking down its nose at nosy newsmen who had uncovered a secret State Department ban on any travel abroad by Professor Owen Lattimore. State insisted there was solid evidence (though it could not be specific) that the Johns Hopkins pundit, who has been under McCarthyist and McCarran committee fire for alleged pro-Communist activities, was planning a visit to the Iron Curtain domain. Retorted Lattimore, once a darling of State's Far Eastern experts: "Midsummer madness...
Even though New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock has aimed many a shrewd blow at the New and Fair Deals, both Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman gave him exclusive interviews that resulted in Krock's winning a Pulitzer Prize and a special citation. Last week James ("Scotty") Reston, No. 2 man in the Times's Washington bureau, explained how Bureau Chief Krock manages to do it. Writing in the Times's house organ on Krock's 25th anniversary with the paper, Reston says that Krock's exclusives illustrate "what must hereinafter be known...
...Republic, when, in the dawn of a freshman century, the country was coming to believe that, if only the dull old vested interests would allow it, all the problems of the universe could be solved by a fresh approach and a logical mind. No word but pundit could be found sufficiently to describe the brightness of young Walter Lippmann...
Your tree-dwelling pundit can readily accept whatever exists, as shown by the appearance of the review in an issue that discusses such recent impossibilities as atomic medicine, antibiotics, rocketry. These, of course, were thoroughly explored in science fiction before they became reality...