Word: hacker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...downstairs crew at the Lassiters' seem very nearly a faceless lot. Mr. Hacker (George Rose) simply does not combine the piety and managerial skills of Mr. Hudson, and there are no equivalents of Rose or dear Mrs. Bridges. Finally, except for a few references to Prohibition, Beacon Hill betrays not the slightest concern with the world outside the Lassiters' door. There is little hope of the subtle interweave of historical issues and events with small domestic crises that has been the glory of Upstairs, Downstairs...
...seems that every group has caught the knack of rationalizing away violations of the law, from Watergate conspirators to antiwar bombers and young black criminals who define assaults as "political acts." Says Frederick Hacker, a University of Southern California professor of psychiatry and law: "There have been an increasing criminalization of politics and a politicalization of criminals. It's reached the point where there are no criminals in San Quentin any more. They're all freedom fighters...
...Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson, a study of the Royal Governor of Massachusetts on the eve of the American Revolution; in philosophy, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia, a disquisition upon just how and why that government is best which governs least. In poetry, Marilyn Hacker's Presentation Piece; in biography, Richard B. Sewall's The Life of Emily Dickinson; in children's books, Virginia Hamilton's M.C. Higgins, the Great, a story about growing up black in the Cumberland Mountains. Science and translation offered a contrast between trouble of the psyche...
...ANDREW HACKER...
...will in just 60 days of captivity. She was hardly a radical. Only a few weeks before the kidnaping, she had been happily picking out china in anticipation of her marriage to Steven Weed, 26, a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley. But Dr. Frederick J. Hacker, a psychiatrist and expert on terrorism consulted by the Hearsts, does not discount the possibility that she made the tape voluntarily. He theorizes that the enormous psychological pressures of liv ng in danger for such a length of time could have induced Patty to change her opinions, at least temporarily...