Word: punditizing
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...flimsy substance of it is a reshaping of the 1942 Hepburn-Tracy film. Instead of a journalistic pundit patterned on Dorothy Thompson (Hepburn's role), Tess Harding (Bacall) is now a TV panjandrum a la Barbara Walters. Tracy's no-non sense sportswriter, Sam Craig, has be come a syndicated cartoonist (Harry Guardino) whose creation, Katz, is a kind of common man's alley cat sociologist...
...French are becoming increasingly critical of the present European mood. French Pundit Raymond Aron, for example, accuses the Western allies of suffering from varying degrees of "self-Finlandization." Warns Aron: "What we are seeing today in Europe is what has happened so often before in the past. The great army arrives at the border with trumpets blaring and flags flying. The people take note of its strength, the sacrifice required to repel the army, then accommodate themselves to the new reality...
THOUGH HE BECAME a hero to most Americans, a kind of scientific pundit turned patriot. Oppenheimer wasted little time in going to Washington to advocate a policy of "international collaboration" concerning the use of atomic weapons. Oppenheimer felt an international community of nations should control the testing and development of the bomb. However, Oppenheimer's willingness to cooperate with other nations, coupled with his past political connections (the FBI had a comprehensive dossier describing all his affiliations with members of the Communist Party), led government hawks and Oppenheimer's former Los Alamos colleague. Edward Teller, to believe that the Father...
Before a packed gallery in the Fenway Park press room ("A sellout," cracked radio pundit Clif Keane), the man who led the Yankees to American League championships three years in a row (1961-63) said the "fun and excitement of managing" lured him out of retirement...
...fail to laugh at a writer who discerns between the merely clever and the simply hilarious? A pundit who deploys verbs like "fumfering" and "obsessing," and adjectives like "guileness?" A knish of a man whose favorite characters are Tiffany and Eino Shmeederer and Sidney and Daphne Kuglemass? A clown who ridicules Plato and Kafka while laughin over the lascivious portions of Emma Bovary? Woody Allen, whose "one regret in life is that he is not someone else...