Word: hacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smart! began as a product of groupthink when Talent Associates saw The Man from U.N.C.L.E. rising on the ratings and shrewdly suspected that the Bondwagon had room for one more. They commissioned Old Pro Mel Brooks (The 2,000-Year-Old Man) and Young Pro Buck (TW3) Henry to hack out a script about a fumbling hero. Instead, Brooks and Henry decided to make him a bumbling zero. Brooks recalls, "I was sick of looking at all those nice sensible situation comedies. They were such distortions of life. If a maid ever took over my house like Hazel...
...completed the terminal maneuvers, the astronauts would have needed an actual object to sight. "One of the biggest things we've learned," said Kraft, "is being able to pick a point in space, seek it out and find it. And it appears that we have a really good hack* on what we can do with Gemini 6 in getting the spacecraft in the right position to carry out the terminal phase of rendezvous...
Irony is the keynote to this droll, dry novel. In it Author Sheed, book editor and drama critic for Commonweal, continues the dissection of contemporary life that he began in The Hack. The book is overlong, as though Author Sheed feared that the reader would not easily take his point; and only its protagonist comes vividly to life. But in its cool compassion and amused impatience with self-deceit, it is a perceptive guidebook through the wilds of a modern marriage...
Behind the Masses. In Stalin's time, any party hack might wind up working for a newspaper. Today, journalism departments at 18 universities turn out 950 graduates a year. Tass, the official news agency, exchanges news in New York with A.P. and U.P.I., and from time to time Russian newsmen drop in to observe U.S. wire-service operations. All told, there are some 160 Russian correspondents overseas; in many of the underdeveloped nations of Africa and Asia, they outnumber their Western counterparts, and they often scoop the West on stories in these areas. "There are plenty of capable newsmen...
criminal defendants who cannot afford lawyers? Will it be the courthouse hack who goes through the motions of defending indigents for piddling government fees because he has no other clients? Or will it be the able advocate who makes the U.S. adversary system of justice what it is supposed to be-a truth-seeking contest between equal rivals...