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...tell it too. Their 1965 song, Nowhere Man ("Doesn't have a point of view, knows not where he's going to") asked: "Isn't he a bit like you and me?" Last year's Paperback Writer cheerfully skewered the craven commercialism of the hack...
...salesman blinks, frowns, and throws brick through window. Homeowner throws brick through windshield of salesmen's car. Salesmen attack homeowner's piano with axes, swat vases with spade handles. Homeowner tears off car headlights, doors, gas tank and sets auto ablaze. Salesmen demolish house, dig up lawn, hack down trees and shrubbery...
...ended after a year at the Kentucky Military Institute, where he mastered little more than the soldierly bearing that carried him through life. He taught himself, imperfectly, the art of poetry and, with more success, how to write taut and economical prose. Then he squandered the education on venomous hack work for West Coast literary journals and as a columnist for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. He never wrote anything longer than a short story; he was not in the habit of writing a paragraph when just a word would do. The Devil's Dictionary...
...guessing Brown early in 1965. Under their direction, Reagan turned the issue of his inexperience, which could have been a liability, into an asset; he claimed to be a "citizen politician," which somehow implied that Brown was not a knowledgeable pro but merely a used-up, corner-cutting political hack. And although Brown's staff unearthed every right-wing statement Reagan ever made, the issue of his "extremism" became irrelevant. After all, is a candidate "extremist" if most of the electorate is just as "extreme...
...that was-the extent of the book's flaws, though, this one out of many ghost-written hack autobiographies would be merely a drag. But there is something more, an uneasy aftertaste. Sadler was set up in 1966--in the press, among veterans' groups, probably in the minds of tens of thousands with relatives in the jungles--as the image of the American soldier in Vietnam. His book is dedicated to "my friends I left across the sea," and concludes with a five-page list of the names and dates of death of the 143 Special Forces soldiers who were...