Word: punditing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many a pollster, pundit and politician who has been probing the U.S. body politic has found a pervading uneasiness in the 1958 campaign about the President's personal leadership, about whether or not "Ike is really in charge." Even while agreeing that Ike still stands high in popular affection, Syndicated Pollster Sam Lubell wrote last week that doubts about Ike's leadership may well be the make-or-break factor of the campaign (TIME, Oct. 6). "This leadership thing is the main trouble we're having with money and everything else," adds a Republican congressional candidate...
Supreme Compliment. With such typically forthright guile and gall, 32-year-old Victor Zorza (rhymes with Georgia) has become a pundit with a punch among the experts on Communism who too often do all their legwork in the library. During the Hungarian revolution in 1956, Zorza roamed the streets of Budapest to cover the fighting, brought out some of the most vivid reporting on the revolt. But Zorza can also slog through the dull duty of culling, collecting and collating material from the Russian press, reads six dailies that reach him within 36 hours of publication, has 50 filing drawers...
...Pundit Kennan has been criticized by Dean Acheson (his former boss) for being opposed to a strongly armed NATO and in favor of neutralization of Central Europe, but he should not have been included in the summit-at-the-Soviet-price group. TIME erred...
...massive New York Times. With its 50 foreign correspondents alone, there can be and sometimes are differences in interpretation of the same situation to be spotted by the close reader. Last week readers close and casual were enjoying a dispute of higher visibility between two top Timesmen. The debaters: Pundit Arthur Krock, 71, and his longtime friend and colleague James ("Scotty") Reston, 48, chief of the Times's Washington bureau...
...shows itself. As a writer who has come a long way, from left-wing radicalism to earnest antiCommunism, Dos Passos makes clear Ro Lancaster's political displacement but not his personal disintegration. Sketches of Washington days that were both bracing and silly, a caricature of a monumentally pompous pundit, are apt yet perfunctory. Fortunately, time has not weakened Author Dos Passes' power to describe places and incidents. The Great Days has fine sketches of World War II and a sharply drawn portrait of the fallen Ro wandering the streets of Havana and maundering of the days when "there...