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...could teach me how to drive, I never could drive anything. So they said I was a menace and classified me as unteachable. Then in the Quartermaster Corps I was a butcher, assigned to a ration-breakdown. Enormous dead cows were tossed on the floor and I had to hack them up." Before he left the service, however, he managed to learn Bulgarian...
Thus did England, in a careless age, make a farewell to her first great novelist -whom she considered at best a hack writer and at worst a national disgrace...
...always an effort to hack through the tangle of generalities in State of the Union speeches to get to their specific proposals. President Eisenhower's is no exception. Phrases like "encourage foreign trade while preserving legitimate domestic industries" or pleas to shore-up farm prices while recognizing the plight of housewives, show that the President, for all his vigor, maintains in January his fence-sitting habits of last fall. But enough of the specifics gleaned from his speech, plus the republican election platform, show what will be the Administration's domestic policy for the next four years...
Playwright Rattigan is not such a hack as to brush aside the serious point of his story; rather, he responds just enough to betray it. Far more theater man than playwright, he has a way, whether with a scene's falling apart or a character's fate, of being saved by the bell - by someone on the phone or someone at the door. He seems less to chronicle suffering than to exploit it. But he respects the rules, he scrupulously obeys the sign reading No Unhappiness Permitted After 10:45 p.m., even if it entails the most false...
...outlay in non-Confederate money, My Darlin' Aida is often bright spectacle enough. As for the story, its bloodhound violences have more bang than the opera's rather bloodless grandiosities; but My Darlin' Aida is a mass of strident cliches, puerile dialogue and hack vulgarities. As for the score, though its glories remain, they are dented and tarnished by embarrassing lyrics, new bits of orchestration, and musicomedy voices...