Word: punditizing
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...Pundit Walter Lippmann, who for two years has hammered home the assertion that Adolf Hitler is a fearfully real danger to the U.S., last week came out with a new proposal: to cut down the U.S. Army. He wrote...
Point was that the President was slugging it out with his critics. Pundit Walter Lippmann was not impressed by the new Presidential slashing...
...there was any power in Vichy-General Weygand or anyone else-who was determined to oppose Germany's African ambitions, he had his apologia written for him last week by Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "The Netherlands are also occupied territory and Dutch soldiers are also prisoners of war and the Dutch people on the Continent are also at the mercy of the German Army and of the Nazi Party. Nevertheless the Dutch Empire stands firm and nothing Hitler threatens to do to the Dutch in the occupied territory causes the Dutch in the free world to think...
...orchestra arranger's job if freed. Convict Brewer, who had killed his wife during a quarrel, lost his speech because of a prison neurosis. Negro Richard Wright, author of Native Son (the story of a Negro killer), became interested in Musician Brewer. So did Jazz Pundit John Hammond and Band Leader Count Basie, who recorded Stampede and offered the prisoner a job. Last week Brewer had his speech back, said: "In a way it was a good thing I came to prison...
...said: "I say that the delivery of needed supplies to Britain is imperative; I say this can be done; it must be done; it will be done." Some cartoonists grew impatient with him (see cut, p. 11) and the New York Times icily observed: "It has not been done." Pundit Walter Lippman tellingly described the President's proclamation of unlimited emergency as "a tremendous imitation of an act . . . not the prelude to action but the substitute...