Word: punditizing
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Married. John Crosby, 52, the New York Herald Tribune's longtime (1946-60), splenetic radio-TV columnist, now its London-based girl-watcher, social essayist and sporadic political pundit; and Katharine Wood, 26, former fashion editor of Edinburgh's staid Scotsman; he for the second time; in London...
Soon the literary critics were in full cry. A New Statesman pundit called Dr. No "the nastiest book" he had ever read, full of "two-dimensional sex longings." Breathing even more heavily, a professor in the New Republic discovered mythic overtones and likened poor Bond to Perseus and St. George. Ian Fleming could find only contempt for anyone who tried to read anything into Bond. He quite frankly wrote for money, and did not like his hero very much, although, he admitted, "I admire his efficiency and his way with blondes...
...Secretary Robert McNamara, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Anthony Celebrezze. Also on hand was a galaxy of diversified doers: International Ladies Garment Workers Union President David Dubinsky, Department Store Magnate Bernard Gimbel, Mrs. Ernest Hemingway, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, Writer-Pundit Theodore White, Actor Fredric March, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Artist William Walton. The President sat next to Jackie at the dinner, visited with Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, but made no speeches and left town barely five hours after he arrived...
...affairs, struck at least obliquely at Goldwater. Worse, after the 1960 presidential election, Goldwater had scoffed at the same party platform that Ike now praised so highly by saying, "We lost on it." To make sure no one missed the point, Thayer's Tribune planted a column by Pundit Roscoe Drummond squarely alongside the Eisenhower text. Said Drummond's lead paragraph: "If former President Eisenhower can have his way, the Republican Party will not choose Senator Barry Goldwater as its 1964 presidential nominee." And the New York Times headlined its Page One analysis piece: STATEMENT BY THE GENERAL...
...election nights social occasions. Armed with pencils and ruled-off pads, the group around the set had plenty of time for argument and suspense, listening to the votes pile up. Television took the pencil-and-paper fun out of things by substituting the tote board, accompanied by the Friendly Pundit to explain what the flicking numbers seemed to mean. Now the computer is in danger of spoiling the party altogether by announcing the winners before anyone has time to open a can of beer...