Word: punditing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liberals generally rate fairly low: Pundit Norman Cousins has a three-minute McL-C, Dean Acheson a coefficient of ten minutes, but McLandress gives President Kennedy a rating of 29 minutes. Elizabeth Taylor, Nikita Khrushchev and David Susskind all have the same coefficient: three minutes...
RICHARD AUSTEN BUTLER, a parliamentary pundit once observed, "always looks as if he will be the next Prime Minister-until it seems the throne may actually be vacant." Butler has been deputy to all three postwar Tory Prime Ministers-Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan -and after the 1956 Suez debacle had every expectation of succeeding Eden at 10 Downing Street. When the party picked Macmillan instead, "Rab" Butler, though bitterly humiliated, said bravely: "Well, it is something to have been almost Prime Minister...
...doubt about the Labor delegates' mood as they bellowed The Red Flag ("Come dungeon dark or gallows grim/ This song shall be our parting hymn") and hit the road to Jerusalem. The wind of change from Scarborough was infectious. "Me vote Tory?" exclaimed one Soho pub pundit. "That would be like Noah picketing the flood...
Basement Brooder. His aides began scrounging for "new ideas" to work into his speech. Stevenson brought down a sheaf of suggestions. The State Department produced a blizzard of memos. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. phoned Pundit Walter Lippmann to ask what the President might discuss. McGeorge Bundy brooded in the White House basement, jotting occasional thoughts on yellow legal paper. The final drafting was left mainly to Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, who was still scribbling away as he flew with Kennedy to Manhattan on the eve of the speech...
...Pushover." In his new role as political humorist, Art Buchwald takes pains to stay aloof from official Washington. "I feel a pundit like me shouldn't see people," says Buchwald, who has yet to meet the President-or want to. "It only confuses me. When you talk to Senators and Congressmen, you get the impression they are working, and you know it isn't true. And people have a tendency to win you over with flattery. I'm a pushover. I figure a guy who likes my column...