Word: punditing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...While the road of social criticism must always be lonely," pontificates glib Pundit Max Lerner in the introduction, "it need not be made bitter as Dante's exile." But Veblen-who was as different from Dante as Bernard Shaw is from Pope Pius-was not an easy man to employ or encourage. His conspicuous love of lechery caused him to be fired first from the University of Chicago, then from Leland Stanford. Hired as an economist by the U.S. Food Administration in World War I, he coolly proposed, says Lerner, "to do away with the merchants in the country...
Planned Byproducts. More than 1,000 graduates wandered nostalgically last week over Milton's 95-acre, $2,000,000 campus, watched a student production of Alumnus Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, heard speeches by Pundit Walter Lippmann, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Wellesley's Mildred McAfee Horton, Oxford's Sir Richard Livingstone. After Sir Richard's plea for the sort of education that would foster "a feeling for the first-rate" and "a quest for the good," visiting educators wrangled politely about the best...
...uncertain about that. Harry Truman's St. Patrick's Day speech to Congress, which implied a promise of military help, was not enough for them. Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak appeared shortly in Washington and asked for a definite commitment. It was not forthcoming. Pundit Walter Lippmann and others noted that the U.S. could hardly help going to war if Russia attacked Western Europe, since U.S. troops east of the Rhine would have to be pushed aside first. But Europeans wondered whether, in that case, the U.S. would pull its troops out or pour more...
...predictably a statesman. Thus he is esteemed in all quarters except those envenomed by the Chicago Tribune or perverted by fellow travelers. In New Hampshire, for example, many Deweymen and Stassenmen were second-choice Vandenbergmen. In sum, the private conversations of many GOP wise men were expressed by Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "There is no doubt that Vandenberg is now the man on whom the active candidates could most readily come together ... of no other man can it be said that there are so many Republicans who trust him, so few who are deeply opposed...
...editor responsible for everything his paper prints? Certainly. Editors often act, however, as if this responsibility did not extend to syndicated columnists. Unlike the rest of the staff, the absentee pundit rarely has to prove or go bail for his facts, or gossip, no matter how irresponsible or erroneous...