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...speaker defending Jackie Kennedy's marriage to Aristotle Onassis was no gossip columnist or pundit-indeed, few society reporters were so disposed. He was Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, Prince of the Holy Roman Church and-as it turned out last week-foremost a friend in need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Cardinal and Jackie | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Almost every parlor pundit in the country has his own theory about how-if at all-Hubert Horatio Humphrey can manage to save the day for the Democrats. The armchair strategy, which could be called Operation Resuscitation, would commit the Vice President to one of three more or less clearly defined alternatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: WHAT SHOULD HUMPHREY DO? | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...left only with prayer. In the Commission's words there must in fact "...be no higher priority for national action and no higher claim on the nation's conscience," for "to continue on our present course will...ultimately involve the destruction of basic democratic values." As one pundit grimly pointed out, the last time urban change was left to the Lord was at Sodom and Gomorrah. Gary T. Marx Assistant Professor of Sociology

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SODOM AND GOMORRAH | 4/25/1968 | See Source »

...outpost in the capital grew into an independent fiefdom, often brilliant but sometimes slack and slow compared with less lofty competitors. Complaints along these lines from New York headquarters were brushed aside almost as a matter of principle. In 1964, Reston acquired the pulpit of a full-time pundit, and was replaced as bureau chief by Tom Wicker, a top reporter, occasional columnist and indifferent administrator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Mutiny on the Times | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Lucy & Fred. Sagan's views are in the minority, but on one point most educators agree: Video Boy is becoming a sort of peewee pundit. He knows, for example, the finer points of docking in outer space, can distinguish Bach from Bartok, and is a storehouse of such miscellany as the fact that whales' backs get sunburned and peel. When he enters school, his vocabulary will be at least one year ahead of the pre-TV child. On the nursery-type show Romper Room, a teacher once asked her toddlers if anyone could think of a word beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Audience: Video Boy | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

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