Word: punditing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...bait. He had, he said, thought Sidey's book "critical." As for Lasky's hatchet job, he had only read the first part, but he had seen it praised by the New York Herald Tribune's columnist, Roscoe Drummond, and by New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock. And so, said the President, he was "looking forward to reading it, because the part I read was not as brilliant as I gather the rest of it is, from what they say about...
...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...
...Saigon had been freely confiding to newsmen that the U.S., even if it did not actively support a coup d'etat, would certainly not mind seeing one. But the Administration apparently has changed its mind about the possible benefits of a coup, for reasons perhaps explained by Pundit Walter Lippmann: "A government of Vietnamese generals, installed by the U.S., would hardly be better or more popular than Diem, and might well be worse. And so, since we cannot reform the Diem government, since we cannot replace it, and since we cannot abandon it, we have to put up with...