Word: punditic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columnist Joseph Alsop flew back to his capital beat last week after eleven weeks of legwork in the Middle East. Out of his trip came a notable series of reports on the critical area where Russian diplomacy is stoking the fires of Arab nationalism against the West. As a pundit, 46-year-old Joseph Wright Alsop, who shares his column with brother Stewart, often overdramatizes the dark side into deepest doom. But Alsop's dramatic flair as a reporter in foreign lands seizes surely on color, incident, history and personality to bring a situation crackling to life. In this...
...Pundit Walter Lippmann, who rarely finds much to cheer in the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy, called the new policy "surely right." Wrote Lippmann: "The threatened Palestinian war is just the kind of war that the U.N. is designed to prevent. The U.N. recognizes in the veto provision the fact that if the great powers themselves are in direct conflict, the U.N. can do nothing more than attempt to conciliate. But where only small powers are involved, it is possible to limit if not to prevent war, provided the Big Five concur. Working through the U.N. . . . fixes the fact that...
...Pundit ARTHUR KROCK in the NEW YORK TIMES: stunning success in Minnesota has tossed Stevenson off the bandwagon, but it has not put the Senator in the driver's seat. Nevertheless, the Senator's opponents see two specific strengths in his challenge: 1) Minnesota is in the farm area where the Democrats hope to repeat the event of 1948; and the participation of many Republicans and independents in its Democratic primary stimulated that hope, especially when the much smaller Republican primary vote is considered. 2) The Democratic Party may be headed for a Southern insurrection; and if this...
...Pundit WALTER LIPPMANN...
...Justice, Earl Warren, has ordered an end to racial segregation in the nation's schools." Northern Democrats soon charged that Nixon was dragging the high court into politics; Southern Democrats cried that his statement proved the school decision was political. The New York Times's even-handed Pundit Arthur Krock, who praised Nixon's "otherwise well-documented account" of the Administration's accomplishments, wondered why the offending phrase had been allowed to appear in a carefully prepared text...