Word: punditing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Spain's lean, ingratiating Prince Juan Carlos, 22, visited the U.S. in 1958, every political pundit and social gossipist hailed him as the man aging Dictator Franco had picked to some day become the King of Spain. All signs pointed that way. At Franco's invitation, he was in Spain studying at military academies while his father, Don Juan, 46, heir to the Bourbons and pretender to the empty throne, remained in self-imposed exile in Portugal. Only young Prince Juan Carlos dissented. "It is my father who is going to be "King," he insisted...
...intelligence estimates if the Administration denies that Soviet might has "increased considerably." (Grumped Ike to his staff: "We may have to take another look at what we give these people.") Columnist Joseph Alsop called the Eisenhower determination to preserve fiscal responsibility in Government an "obsession" and a "mania." Pundit Walter Lippmann, himself past 70, likened Ike to "a tired old man who has lost touch with the springs of our national vitality...
...Comparative Literature, to be occupied by one of Babbitt's last Harvard students, Critic Harry Levin, 47 (James Joyce: A Critical Introduction). It was an honor proposed by another former Babbitt student. Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey. Countless other students, 'from Poet T. S. Eliot to Pundit Walter Lippmann, would doubtless second it. For nearly 40 years such students jammed Babbitt's French literature classes, and by now his own general contempt for them is a matter that aging men may forgive dead giants. It was worth much to hear Irving Babbitt tear apart his enemies (notably...
...fatalism in wartime Italy, Nazi Germany's ally, since Berenson was born a Jew (he was converted to Roman Catholicism), and his only safety lay in a promise from Mussolini's son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, that he would not be molested. The master pundit of Renaissance art, his ailing wife Mary (who died in 1945), and his secretary-companion, read singly or aloud to one another in a kind of gentle latter-day counterpart of the plague-quarantined knights and ladies of Boccaccio...
...casual afterthought. White House advisers are well aware that the Democrats are starting to take up the refrain that Eisenhower's refusal to expand public spending has retarded the growth rate, when, say the critics, it should be expanding to keep pace with the Soviet Union. Pundit Walter Lippmann took off from the President's message most vehemently, accused the President of putting "private comfort and private consumption ahead of national need . . . The challenge of the Soviet Union," he wrote, "has been demanding an increase, not a reduction of the share of the national income devoted to public...