Word: punditic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before its publication date last week, a new, closely detailed biography of John Foster Dulles was embroiled in the kind of pundit-blown dust storm that recurrently swirls about the U.S. Secretary of State. Much of what is told in John Foster Dulles (Harper; $4.50), by John Robinson Beal (TIME'S diplomatic correspondent in Washington), had been told before, but two points in the book were enough to precipitate the storm. Reported Author Beal: ¶Dulles last year canceled the proposed $56 million loan to help Egypt's Dictator Nasser build the Aswan Dam because...
...Pundit ARTHUR KROCK in the NEW YORK TIMES...
Died. Percy Wyndham Lewis,* 72, irascible and erratic novelist, artist and critic-of-mankind; of a brain tumor; in London. A self-styled "Renaissance Man" and professional dissenter, Lewis launched a lifelong guerrilla warfare on convention in 1914 with Blast, a magazine (co-edited with Poet-Pundit Ezra Pound) which ferociously lit into the popular romanticism ("chaos of Enoch Ardens, laughing Jennys, ladies with pains, good-for-nothing Guineveres"). He introduced cubism to Britain, then characteristically turned on it fiercely when cubism became popular. In a series of novels written in prose as rough-edged as a raw nerve (Tarr...
...view. Hoover had become a dragon who was devouring the common man. To Hoover, Roosevelt was at worst an economic madman, at best a mere "featherduster" (the nickname had been devised by kindly friends who considered F.D.R. a mental lightweight, a view then shared by Mr. Justice Holmes and Pundit Walter Lippmann. among others). In the first of four volumes on The Age of Roosevelt, the author of The Age of Jackson now tells how the featherduster became a shining knight who slew the dragon...
...reporters left the Nixon home impressed with what he had said-and with what he had not said. Speculating on the whole performance, New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock noted: "At this distant point from 1960, across a time span in which coming events are necessarily obscure, the current fact seems to be not only that Nixon is foremost among Republican presidential aspirants but that he is unlikely to make the errors which would displace him from that position." Five days after the inauguration, Dick Nixon announced that the future held something else in store for him: a new home...