Word: punditizing
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...howling demagog, but the obscure little wardheeler who, through family, friends and acquaintances, can be counted on to deliver 50 or 60 certain votes. Of the smallest cog in the political machine, the precinct executive who lives with his constituents and does favors for them year in & out, Pundit Frank Kent wrote in The Great Game Of Politics: "He is the bone and sinew of the machine. He is its foundation and the real source of its strength. If he does not function, the machine decays. If he quits, the machine dies. He is the actual connecting link between...
...Woollcott became an unwitting toreador in the radio v. newspaper ring. Seizing upon his radio praise of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice & Men ("I look upon [it] as a masterpiece") the book's publishers plastered newspapers in Chicago, Boston and New York with the claim that Pundit Woollcott had spoken thus "in speaking to 69,540,000 people...
Probably the most eminent present members of the Sunpapers' staff are its four biographers. Oldest of these in point of service is Political Pundit Kent, who has a roving assignment to write as he pleases for the Sun. Editorialist Mencken, who writes a weekly article for the Evening Sun, has been continuously employed on the two papers for over 30 years, is now a director of the Sun company. Present management of the Sunpapers, headed by President Paul Patterson, has sought to make the Sun and the Evening Sun separate journalistic entities, although national advertising may be inserted...
...such financial cynics as Pundit John T. Flynn, securities speculation is the moral and practical equivalent of a crap game. By more moderate theorists it is conceded the useful function of keeping markets liquid. Last week after President Roosevelt's fatherly warning to Government employes to stay out of the market (see p. 15), New York Stock Exchange President Charles R. Gay found occasion in Chicago to repeat the old argument for speculative liquidity, observing that "calculating, measured speculation has been a constructive force. . . .'' Right back at Mr. Gay came the Securities & Exchange Commission's David...
...fellow-intellectuals he considers a sorry lot: "If the average pundit in The Nation, the New Republic, Harpers, the Atlantic Monthly, The Dial, were to put down with . . . candor, his philosophy of life, it would turn out a ... pitiful confusion. . . . Behind the materialism, the cynicism, the indifferentism. the impertinence, the impotence of most of our popular writing exists a failure to think straight from the facts, and to feel straight. . . ." Now and then Waldo Frank sees a few rays of hope filtering down through the nearly impenetrable jungle: in the work of such men as the late liberal journalists Randolph...