Word: punditizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black-tie dinner at Washington's Federal City Club was a farewell affair for Pundit Walter Lippmann, 77, who is leaving the capital after 29 years to write his political columns from New York. It was supposed to be a private affair, and the club's president, Columnist Charles Bartlett, was shocked a few days later to find that the Washington Post had published the text of Lippmann's remarks at the party-a wry goodbye to Washington and a few observations on U.S. foreign policy. "The dignity of the occasion," Bartlett huffily told Post Managing Editor...
...became fascinated by Viet Nam, and turned the task of understanding and explaining the agony, hopes, failures and confusion of the torn country into a personal mission. Armed with master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Syracuse, he became at once a journalist, academician, lecturer and pundit...
...Sport on trumpet: Aggressive, outgoing, he is the orchestra's resident swinger, a locker-room pundit, a connoisseur of poker, baseball and off-color jokes. To meet the physical demands of his instrument, he lifts weights. > The Tout on trombone: He lifts martinis. A wheeler-dealer, he is forever organizing parties and picnics, likes to sit in on jam sessions at the local jazz club...
...overall quality among Catholic schools, and is rapidly trying to catch up. Faculty salaries have been upgraded-the average pay of full professors, $13,543 in 1965, will reach $22,500 in three years-and the school is on the hunt for academic stars with the stature of Communications Pundit Marshall McLuhan, who will join the staff next semester. Such is the pace of change at Fordham, quips its theology department chairman, Father Christopher Mooney, that "if you stay home with a cold one day, you find that some great experiment has been tried but you missed...
Straining Dignity. While the Warren court mulls over such potential blockbusters, many a free-swinging legal pundit is gossiping that two of the great activists may soon quit-Justice Hugo Black, because he is now past 80, and Justice William O. Douglas, because he has supposedly strained court dignity by taking a fourth wife of 23. Knowledgeable court watchers will have to see it to believe it. Even so, a change in the court's composition may be coming. Along with the aging Black and Douglas, Chief Justice Warren is 76; Justices Clark and Harlan...