Word: punditing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miseducators of the people," he has a good journalist's keen and sometimes merciless way of sizing up people. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau "hadn't a brain in his head." F.D.R.'s aide, Harry Hopkins, "had a feeling of a mistress toward President Roosevelt." Pundit Walter Lippmann's "job in life is to sit in a noise-proof room and draft things on paper" without ever going through the "heartbreaks of getting agreement out of people...
From solons to saloonkeepers, every wag had his political gag as the election moon waxed bright. The word around the Pentagon last week was that if Nelson Rockefeller believes the nation needs $3 billion more for defense, "why doesn't he write a check?" New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock figured that "the inter partisan confusion could now be resolved if the Democrats would nominate their favorite Republican, Rockefeller, and the Republicans their favorite Democrat, Lyndon Johnson." In the Senate, Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy spotted the reason his favorite candidate, Hubert Humphrey, lost the West Virginia primary: "Hubert...
...case broke, a general reading of the U.S. daily press could only have led to the conclusions that 1) the U.S. was almost totally in the wrong, and 2) chances for "success" at the Paris summit conference had been woefully diminished. From country publisher to Washington pundit, from cartoonist (see cuts) to editorial writer, came the outcries...
...South America came a thinner, tanner, more relaxed Adlai Stevenson last week, and seldom have loyal troops given a more resounding cheer to a general splashing ashore. Enthusiastic correspondents dogged his footsteps. Columnist Marquis Childs hailed him as a "brilliant, complex, resilient individual" torn "between dread and desire." Prestigious Pundit Walter Lippmann urged Candidate Jack Kennedy to solve the problem posed by his Roman Catholicism by accepting second place on a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. Across the U.S., the scattered but sizable and zealous band of supporters who had given up Stevenson for lost suddenly began finding reasons why he could...
...still have a good telephone and a couple of legs," says Krock-and he uses them for every column. He intensely dislikes being called a pundit: "I am more concerned with the reportorial quality of what I write than with any other aspect. The reporter is the sine qua non of a newspaper. If the reporters are good, the newspaper is good...