Word: pundit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gauls, said Pundit Caesar, "the bravest are the Belgians." Reasons, as Caesar saw them: 1) the Belgians were far off the path of Roman traders and thus far from the enervating fripperies of civilization, and 2) they lived across the Rhine from the Germans, with whom they were fighting all the time...
...profession populated largely by somnambulistic hacks, his Shavian emphasis on the relation of drama to life is rare and valuable. But his seriousness never declines into solemnity; his awareness of the social significance of the stage is leavened by wit (he is a punster as well as a pundit), and by an understanding that dramatic criticism, is not merely a department of literary criticism, but something unique: an attempt "to give a permanent form to something impermanent. That," he says, "was certainly the impulse that pushed me into dramatic criticism--the impulse to be an eyewitness for posterity...the analytic...
...live by it. If we lived by it, Eddie and I would have been terribly unhappy through all this turmoil. But I can shamelessly say that we have been terribly happy. I am literally rising above it." Her words rang all the way to Manhattan, where Pundit Max Lerner wrote in the New York Post: "Where so many people have become desensitized in our world, I welcome this forthright celebration of the life of the senses...
...economic problems. On open votes of confidence, Fanfani won dutiful majorities. But on secret ballots, the right-wingers harassed, hamstrung and even outvoted Fanfani so that he never really got a chance to function as Premier. They did so without regret. "Talk about sniping," said one Roman pundit. "Fanfani practically invented...
...youthful appearance (Replied the Vice President, just turned 46: "I feel older inside"). He pitched again at a dinner given by Motion Picture Association President Eric Johnston (who wants bigger sales of U.S. films to the Soviets), which was attended by such big opinion makers as New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stu Symington and Texas' Lyndon Johnson. He had former Disarmament Aide Harold Stassen over for a private lunch at the Russian embassy. Mikoyan even ran the spiel again for the benefit of top labor union bosses James Carey and Walter Reuther (absent...