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Whether subtle or simplistic, black poetry often makes the poetry of the streets come alive. If four-letter words are used (and they appear often), it is because they are not only weapons to hack away protective layers of deadening sophistication, but they are also the words of the common people...
...feelings in Neponset on the stadium were made perfectly, if somewhat emotionally, clear last week during a public hearing in which every ward-heeler and political hack in Dorchester and South Boston took the dais to contribute his share of abuse...
Since Nixon has ruled out a budget deficit, there are only two things that he can do to produce a balanced budget in the neighborhood of $200 billion. He must find new taxes to add to federal revenues, and he must hack away with determination at the spending requests that his department heads have put before him. He can hardly ask for a surtax extension beyond June 30, since he himself campaigned to end it; even if he changed his mind, moreover, Congress would hardly vote it in an election year. Nixon is intrigued by the idea of a value...
...spread the cards on the table to reveal any irresponsible freedom or censorship that might "already exist." Perhaps such a critical hand might be just helpful enough to bluff the aim of some joker's camera or steady a film editor's slippery scissors that can hack or heal history in one snip...
...number of Russian writers have vilified Kuznetsov-most of them party hacks. Last week a voice was raised in the Soviet Union which, for the first time, had the ring of legitimate reproach. Andrei Amalric, 31, is no hack, but one of Russia's most promising young writers. In an open letter to Kuznetsov, Amalric criticized his fellow writer not for defecting but for paying the price of being a KGB informer in order to obtain permission to go abroad. By his own admission, Kuznetsov told the KGB "a pure fiction"-that Evgeny Evtushenko, Vasily Aksyonov and other liberal...