Word: punditing
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...north, Belgium had fallen. Red Pundit Ilya Ehrenburg, a recent visitor to Brussels, indignantly reported catching a man in a café in the act of ordering Coke for himself and his innocent child. In vain, Ehrenburg warned: "A person who starts drinking Coca-Cola soon finds himself turning to other sinister habits." Belgian bottling plants were hard put to keep up with demand...
...Middle Ages spent hundreds of years destroying the grandeur that was Rome and rebuilding it in their own image-only to have it razed in turn by the headstrong men of the Renaissance. The process has never stopped: Art Pundit John Ruskin, making a pilgrimage to the ancient refectory of Santa Croce in the 19th Century, found it had become a bustling carpet factory; to view what remained of its frescoes he was obliged to scale a loom. He saw a whole street of Florence, including the quarters of Donatello and Bronzino, torn down to make room for a cheap...
...Music Pundit Sigmund Spaeth had toiled through statistics and produced for the New York Times Magazine a list of the half-century's "most popular" songs. His1 list: Sweet Adeline (1903), School Days (1907), Shine On, Harvest Moon (1908), Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1910), Down by the Old Mill Stream (1910), I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad (1911), St. Louis Blues (1914), Smiles (1917), Stardust (1929), God Bless America...
...this hue & cry no Democrat rose to battle in Dean Acheson's defense-even though some of them might privately agree with the position of New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock, who this week described Acheson as "in many ways the best-equipped man for his job in years and intellectually the superior of-many [of his] predecessors...
Last week, somewhat muffled in Pundit...