Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Harry Truman's drastic emergency anti-strike bill before them, Senate Democrats were over the barrel. They had to choose between President and Party. There was never any doubt which choice they would make. Elections are only five months away...
...Liars will steal and rogues will murder, if necessary, to accomplish a nefarious purpose. . . . The honeymoon of this lying, corroding crowd of murderers of character is over. Their swill barrel is empty-they have scraped the bottom of the garbage can. . . . Evans intoxicated himself with megalomaniac dreams of power. ... He has tried bullwhipping, browbeating . . . common ordinary lying . . . but the canker of disappointment gnaws at his soul...
...stoutly insist that out of Farrell's graceless prose emerges a true and important period picture. The subject: Manhattan of the flamboyant '20s-which the late Scott Fitzgerald saw from the peak of success, and which Chicago-born James T. Farrell sees from the bottom of the barrel...
This time the man in the barrel is Hero Bernard, who lives among bums and hobos in a cubicle of the "Willis Hotel" (rent: 35? a night). First he works in a cigar store where his fellow clerks nourish their starved egos by achieving the maximum of seductions at the minimum of expense. While they dream of the day when they can buy any woman they want, Bernard dreams of deathless love and literary fame. In his off hours he buries himself in the works of Dreiser, Ibsen, Keats and Sherwood Anderson, agonizingly hammers out his own youthful fiction...
Jackson and Murphy are enemies. Jackson, once upon a time, wanted to be Attorney General. Murphy got the job. Jackson set his sights on the Supreme Court. Murphy beat him to it. When Jackson finally landed on the Court, they were like two tomcats tossed into the same barrel. Hugo Black is another Jackson-hater. Friends predicted that he would resign if Jackson were appointed Chief Justice...