Word: punditing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Bernard Shaw, pixie, playwright and pundit, turned 93, ate some birthday cake and let go a thought or two on politics ("Stalin [is] the mainstay of peace in Europe") and his own advanced years ("Thank God, I've reached my second childhood"). London's Liberal News Chronicle concurred only in the latter view. "[Shaw]," it wrote, "is now the grand old man of English letters but not, alas ... of English politics. In that field he has said wittily a greater number of silly things than any intelligent man is entitled to say in ... a lifetime...
This totally fictitious character has for years been providing the lazy college pundit with material that is completely untrue. The favorite phrases of these writers have always been "dirty legged," "stringy haired," and "intellectual...
...argued glib New York Post Home News Pundit Max Lerner, after studying the list. These 25 men might be the "movers and shakers, in the narrow sense of power. But they are not the men who rule the world . . ." Lerner, perhaps confusing influence with power, made his own list of the 25 who "really rule the world . . . the political, intellectual, and moral rulers . . .": Stalin, Churchill, Nehru, Pope Pius, Weizmann, Mao Tse-tung, Tito; and Physicist Albert Einstein, Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Philosophers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell; Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, Artist Pablo Picasso, Writers...
...Where Are the Cheers?" The speakers produced their well-worn libels with the pride of a paterfamilias displaying yellowed family photographs. Some of the veterans seemed bored; Soviet Pundit Ilya Ehrenburg fought the good fight part of the time in the bar, sampling French liqueurs. Fragile, gray-haired Mme. Eugénie Cotton, French physicist and president of the International Democratic Federation of Women (who had been denied a visa to the New York conference) smiled tender approval of the proceedings. The conference chairman, lean, somber Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie, France's atomic-energy boss...
...Dukes, and notably Peter Fernandez and Al Ramsen, give excellent performances. They do so well, in fact, that they could get along without any help from Pundit Pearson, who shows up again at the end to preach the moral. In the process, he almost pulls the teeth of a film that has a lot of bite...