Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Story. As readers hack their way through the thorny pages of Finnegans Wake, they become aware of certain figures and phrases that recur frequently-H. C. Earwicker, Anna Livia, Maggie, Guinness, Phoenix Park, the River Liffey that curves through Dublin. Tracing these characters and places as they bob in and out of apparently unrelated words and sentences, Critic Edmund Wilson has worked out the most intelligible interpretation of the book, supported by Joyce's own statement that, as Ulysses is a Dublin day, Finnegans Wake is a Dublin night. The long confused passages in which people change shape...
...Adolf Hitler of his day. When Athenian aristocrats, with Sparta's help, established an oligarchy, Critias led "the notorious and bloody reactionary dictatorship of the Thirty," which executed some 1,500 Athenians. When Athenian democrats returned to power, they decided "to hew the head off and not hack the limbs," condemned Socrates to death...
...York night life. "Cafe Society," now playing at the Metropolitan, is a gospel on the beauties of the sweet-and-simple life, ranting against the Futility of Society. But Madeleine Carroll, as the slightly pixilated cafesse, succeeds in making herself so delightful, and Fred MacMurray, as the penniless newspaper hack, is so colorless, that everyone leaves the picture convinced that Success is Society and Society is Heaven. If the audience is willing to discount the film's moralizing, it can settle back for an hour or so and enjoy the ermine and champagne...
...Hack. Feuding executives, shrinking sales and rising costs recently carried hoary (1904), respected Reo Motor Car Co. down to a point where it had to undergo a major operation or liquidate...
Last fortnight Reo Machinist Guy Hack convinced U. S. District Judge Arthur F. Lederle in Detroit that the 1,500 Reo employes at Lansing should have a hand in saving the company and their jobs, wangled a place on the reorganized board for a director to be elected by the workers. Last week Reo's workers elected Guy Hack, who is also president of their C. I. O. local. To objections that he could not be Union President Hack and Company Director Hack at the same time, Guy Hack answered that he cannot hire and fire, therefore still retains...