Word: punditing
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...this "peaceful, humdrum, hell-free, deChristianized life," as Culture Pundit Sir Kenneth Clark describes it, many Britons feel merely fretful and frustrated. In the euphoric '50s, a new crop of playwrights and novelists, mostly from the grubby lower reaches of provincial life, hammered furiously at the deadening smugness of their society. It was a time when many of their countrymen were groping for a new sense of purpose and national identity. "Nobody thinks, nobody cares," cried Jimmy Porter, the non-hero of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. "There aren't any good, brave causes left...
...official U.S. rebuttal was some back talk in Moscow itself. One restrained critic was Canon Lewis John Collins of London's St. Paul's Cathedral, a leading British unilateral disarmer who was accompanied on the trip from London by such other ban-the-bombers as anti-American Pundit Kingsley Martin, ex-editor of the New Statesman and Nation, and Physicist John D. Bernal, a Lenin Peace Prize winner. Collins received a hostile reception when he coupled criticism for the "wickedness" of U.S. nuclear tests with Moscow's "grave error" in becoming the first nation to resume tests...
...plugging policies that were anathema to the Socialists only a few years ago. Proclaimed West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt in his Cologne speech: "We say that the Federal Republic must cultivate and develop the relationship of trust with the United States." From SPD Economic Pundit Heinrich Deist there was no kind word for nationalization of industry; instead, he urged free competition, mildly suggested that capitalism be improved by better anti-cartel legislation and restriction of lobbyists...
...intellectuals that the U.S. is "the country one must go to in order to see what is novel and important," and that "Americans have been into the dark places, and the lighter places too, of the human imagination and have found some answers for us all." Added Daily Telegraph Pundit Peregrine Worsthorne: "The ambitious, young, lower-middle-class Tory sees America as an attractive kind of society because there is no doubt that in America, if you have what it takes to be successful, when you get to the top you are in the full sense accepted...
...Crimson fortunes would best be a subject for the cerebrations of our pundit friend. Pete Kelley and his jump shot will be back. Dennis Lynch, for two years the early season flash and late season bust, also returns for his senior year. Captain Gene Augustine is the only backcourt man with any experience...