Word: punditizing
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Many a U. S. highbrow (notably Gilbert Seldes) has "discovered" the comic strip, along with the cinema, burlesque et al. Advanced is the theory that the social historian of the future will find rich lore in its crudely drawn and colored cartoons. Accordingly, some future pundit may glean from last week's 20th Anniversary page the impression that anniversary gifts consist mostly of earthenware, that after the party the host (in tailcoat, grey cravat, purple vest) is lapidated by his wife while he loudly cries: "Maggie?please save a cup fer coffee in the morning...
Resigning. Dr. Arthur Stanley Pease, A. B., M. A., Ph. D. (Harvard), famed classicist; as president of Amherst College; to become professor of Latin & Greek at Harvard. An earnest, retiring pundit, Dr. Pease is little known to his students. He facially resembles Amherst's Trustee Calvin Coolidge, who is spoken of (without much reason) as his successor...
...exist a university or an undergraduate college, in the traditional and proper sense, anywhere in the country. ... No such thing [as an education] is possible in any American institution with which I am acquainted." Author- Professor Nock, born 59 years ago in Scranton, Pa., is a tall, rosy-cheeked pundit who has gotten out a biography of Thomas Jefferson and a definitive edition (with Catherine Rose Wilson) of Rabelais. He edited The Freeman, later contributed a column in its successor The New Freeman. During the War he was secretary to Minister to Belgium Brand Whitlock. Though he holds...
When a slangster cocks an eyebrow and rasps "Oh, yeah?" some people feel faintly bilious. But when a pundit uttered the phrase last week at the Milwaukee meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, he stirred his hearers to academic enthusiasm. The "yea" in the Bible, said Supervisor of English Max John Herzberg of Newark's public schools, is the "yeah" of today. Beowulf or any other early Briton would have pronounced it in the same manner if not with the same irritating inflection. Also, said Supervisor Herzberg, the use of "them" for "those" is no modern...
Last week no less a personage than Clinton Wallace Gilbert, Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post, came forward for the Lindbergh child to deny this rumor. In the column ("Daily Mirror of Washington") which he usually devotes to the politically great of the land, Pundit Gilbert wrote with unaccustomed feeling and excitement...