Word: punditizing
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...Services Committee; Mrs. Barry Bingham, vice president of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times; Economist Beardsley Ruml; President John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune; Pollster George Gallup; Mrs. Bruce Gould, co-editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; Executive Director Lester Granger of the National Urban League; Pundit Walter Lippmann; Mrs. Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post...
...Next day Pundit Walter Lippmann suggested that the written-question method be made a permanent part of Ike's conferences when he resumes them. Answers could be prepared by executive departments and "edited" by White House aides. "Even before the President's illness," argued Lippmann, "it was fair to argue that the oral questions and answers were not sufficiently informing-especially on intricate matters-and that they needed to be supplemented by written questions and written, that is to say deliberate and fully informed, answers." Columnist David Lawrence also advocated the written-question method as a permanent change...
Although Ed Lahey has been assigned to Knight's Washington bureau for 15 years, he has steadfastly resisted the occupational urge to become a pundit. "I don't know anything duller than an expert," says Lahey. "I have constantly striven for superficiality. The best stories are written by guys who don't know anything about the subject. A kid who goes in cold to cover a labor convention may make it sing." Because of his own talent for going in cold to tackle a top story, Ed Lahey, who calls himself a "paid free lancer," has roved...
...conclusion of last week's AFL-CIO unity meeting in New York, one pundit called the merger "the miracle on Thirty-Fourth Street." Few people, remembering the rancorous night when John L. Lewis pulled his Committee of Industrial Organizations out of the American Federation of Labor, could imagine the new labor group as anything except a battleground for rival bigwigs. When Mike Quill and some of the more militant CIO leaders protested the merger heatedly, observers predicted that the miraculous enterprise would shortly founder...
...Legitimate. To such G.O.P. reaction, and to the plain fact that whether the Republicans like it or not, their conduct of foreign affairs will be an issue in the 1956 campaign, New York Timesman Arthur Krock last week addressed himself. Wrote Pundit Krock: "Republicans who have been indicating that international perils require the opposition not to attack even the measures and methods by which foreign policy is being conducted by the Administration would sound a little more grown up if they would acknowledge the realities of politics in a free land and the duty of the party out of power...