Word: punditing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...alone among U.S. columnists-nor for that matter, among editorial cartoonists, both in the U.S. and abroad (see cuts). The dark clouds gathering above Berlin, the deadly mushrooms sprouting above the Siberian testing ground at Novaya Zemlya all combined to give some journalists the visible shakes. Many a pundit, in fact, seemed to be out of touch with the national mood, which was one of determination in the face of freshening danger (see THE NATION...
...WALTER LIPPMANN, 71, syndicated pundit for the New York Herald Tribune, who has said: "There is nothing to teach at a school of journalism. What a journalist needs is an education...
Long one of TV's remotest stars, Pixie Pundit David Brinkley confessed that he had finally become reconciled to autograph hounds. "Except," he backslid, "when I'm out somewhere with my children. I don't want them to get the idea their father is some kind of tinhorn celebrity-at least not until they're old enough to realize that this is an ephemeral, transitory, shallow and not very important kind of fame that can and will disappear even faster than it arrived...
When Lloyd George's career faded in the '20s, it was not just that history had passed him by in the mass move of the discontented vote from liberal radicalism to trade union socialism: Lloyd George was too busy being a pasha to be a pundit or a prophet. Fame, money, wit, his bounderish bounce and white-maned, apple-cheeked handsomeness proved catnip to women, and he maintained what his son calls a "modern seraglio" at Churt, his princely estate in Surrey. On one of his increasingly rare visits to the old man's home Richard answered...
...determination to defend freedom." Columnist Walter Lippmann, a man who has had two private audiences with Khrushchev and upholds the principle of "accommodation" in dealing with the Reds (TIME, Dec. 22, 1958), termed Vienna "significant and important because it marked the re-establishment of full diplomatic intercourse." Wrote Pundit Lippmann: "As a result of the U-2 and the breakup of the summit conference in Paris, there was in fact, although not in form, a rupture of diplomatic relations between Moscow and Washington." Kennedy's repair work on that rupture, Lippmann added, was "a very considerable achievement...