Word: punditing
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...thwacked at the Victorian taste for the didactic, the sentimental and the morally elevating. From London (where he moved in 1859), Whistler deployed his canvases like troops in this avant-garde campaign. The fury to which he goaded proper Victorians bubbled over in 1877 when Ruskin, the reigning art pundit of the day, wrote that Whistler was "a coxcomb, flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." At a farcical libel trial in which one of Whistler's paintings was displayed upside down and the jury mistook a Titian for a Whistler, the painter won damages...
Kintner and all other top TV men are equally opposed to the far more serious proposals from Pundit Lippmann for an independent TV network, devoted to "civilized entertainment," and the Christian Science Monitor's plea for a network modeled roughly on the British Broadcasting Corp. Both the noncommercial BBC and the British commercial ITV probably give a better balance of educational and entertainment programs than do U.S. networks. But as soon as Britain's commercial channel went into business three years ago, its lower-brow fare began to take the bulk of Britain's "telly" viewers away...
...turn of the century, Gertrude followed her brother Leo to Paris. Leo was the art pundit and collector in those early days, but he was everlastingly tinkering with his psyche, so that when a San Francisco spinster named Alice Babette Toklas appeared, "soft, small, and warmly murmurous," Gertrude switched boon companions for life. The two gentle ladies from America enjoyed living in the eye of the bohemian hurricane. There was the writer André Salmon, who foamed at the mouth with delirium (he later claimed it was soap) and nibbled the trimmings on Alice Toklas' hat. There was Alfred...
...evidence of real concern for the corruption of a major communications medium. The Christian Science Monitor's call for a government-established network, run like the BBC by a "public corporation" and paid for by the licensing of TV receivers, seemed a logical solution to some. Last week Pundit Walter Lippmann advanced a similar idea for a new network dedicated not to private profit but to public service...
...partners, the stars of the Huntley-Brinkley Report are complementary rather than competitive-an unusual circumstance in the jealously competitive TV club. Huntley, 47, is the straight man, tall (6 ft. 1 in.), saturninely handsome, serious, inclined to take a panoramic view of the news, more inclined to pundit. This comes out most in his own Sunday show, Time: Present -Chet Huntley Reporting, in which he explores predominantly heavy subjects: integration, world trade, public education. A graduate of Western broadcasting (Seattle, Los Angeles), he was brought East by NBC in 1956 to do the Sunday show...