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Word: punditing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is one of those moments," wrote a Rocky Mountain pundit, "when politicians aren't sure whether the voter is apathetic or just laying for somebody." The large bloc (estimated upward of 25%) of "undecided" voters was giving pollsters and politicians the jitters. But that was only half the puzzle: those voters who came into direct contact with Jack Kennedy or Dick Nixon seemed to be impressed. Each candidate was working out a campaign style uniquely his own-and as different from the florid behavior of yesteryear as farm subsidies are from free silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Contrasting Styles | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

...continental allies regard his idea of a European conference as just a device to establish French hegemony in Europe and to exclude Britain from the Continent permanently. As for the idea of a European referendum, the majority of Western European statesmen seemed to share the feeling of a Roman pundit who noted tartly that "Italian politicians mostly feel they have enough trouble with the voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Awaiting the Verdict | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

Satirist Ehrenburg also leads his pantaloon pilgrim to some slapstick swipes at Communist literature of the period. Although all he knew about the subject was that "Leo Tolstoy had a handsome beard just like Karl Marx," the little tailor becomes an "inexorable" Marxist literary critic. As pundit of proletarian literature -which is what Ehrenburg himself became after he ended his Paris stay in 1940 and went home-Lasik writes a preface for a socialist realist novel about romance in a soap factory ("Dunja yielded to the beat of new life, and whispered, blushing slightly: 'You see. we have surpassed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kosher Candida | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...funeral of the five Communists killed in Reggio Emilia, the riots had served to rally non-Communists temporarily to the support of the Tambroni government. But there was little rejoicing among liberal Italians, who recognized the neo-Fascists as a constant source of similar trouble for the government. Wrote Pundit Enrico Mattei: "The Tambroni government cannot go while there is violence. But when the violence ends, let it go in favor of a more representative government stronger and better equipped to cope with sedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Riot Politics | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Pundit Walter Lippmann makes his first television appearance in a broad, blunt discussion, with Interviewer Howard K. Smith, of Presidents, politics and peeves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Jul. 11, 1960 | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

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