Word: punditizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...That pundit, alas, is lost to history, but his frighteningly accurate prediction remains. The Crimson indeed did not win another game all season. The only bright spot in those dark days of defeat was Borchard's scoring spree that made him the second Harvard man even to score 1000 points in his career...
...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...
...elective of fice. Said Michigan's Romney: "I will be a candidate for the Republican guberna torial nomination." Although Romney is a cinch to win that nomination, he faces an uphill fight against Incumbent Democratic Governor John Swainson in the fall. Yet many a politician and pundit were already measuring him for 1964, and the reasons were plain enough. The Republicans have three much bigger names than Romney, but each carries some weighty liabilities. Nixon bears the onus of his 1960 defeat; he has his hands full this year in his campaign to be Governor of California...
...Goldberg, who solved the Met's union contract impasse (TIME, Sept. 8). The grandes dames were out in force-Rose Kennedy, the President's mother; the Castoria heiress Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, and the indomitable Alice Roosevelt Longworth-along with such assorted guests from other fields as Pundit Walter Lippmann, Labor Chief George Meany, Oilman Edwin Pauley, and New York's Mayor Robert Wagner (who played the fiddle as a boy). And, since the party was in honor of Governor Luis Muňoz Marin and his wife, there was a sprinkling of Puerto Ricans, including Mayoress...