Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only would Roussel be paid in gold for an honest day's slaughter. There was always the chance that he could hack away a chunk of territory from the Turk and rule it himself under the Emperor. Roussel's wife Matilda, a forceful battle-ax from Lombardy, endorsed the idea. Like most mothers, she was thinking of her children's future and her own too, and there was not much future with a hus band who fought...
...pity the hack who in the guise of an obituary has tried to cut down Eugene O'Neill to the size of the obit-writer. It is bad enough for the witless and mean-spirited to judge their living betters ; when they cut coffins for the gifted dead to the shape and size of their own malformed souls it is un forgivable...
...president of the Carnegie Foundation. Schooled at Groton, Keppel entered the College in 1934 as an English concentrator, and here his talents became evident. As Student Council president, he began the fight against the tutoring schools which was to force them from the Harvard scene. Looking hack, he calls the Council experience valuable, for it spurred an interest that became his life's work: educational policy...
...Johnson's biographical Life of Richard Savage, a gifted but improvident London hack writer gets embroiled in bastardy, murder, poverty, affluence, licentiousness and general skulduggery, but as he squanders his talents and dies in a debtors' prison, the rigorous moralist writing his story extends his compassion and pleads for that of the reader. In Le Fanu's The Room in the Dragon Volant, a rich and credulous Englishman is tricked on a trip to France by a pretty girl and a couple of Gallic sharpsters, but emerges somewhat wiser from the coffin in which they have nailed...
...keeping entirely to surfaces, a play that strives after popular appeal is never compelled to make compromises. Even so, the writing sometimes fails it: before the story gathers momentum, it often seems more cute than droll, more hack-professional than peasantlike. It is not until the teahouse is building that the captain and the colonel are sufficiently at odds to become hilarious. And it is not until the teahouse is built, and there is music and graceful Mariko Niki's geisha dance, that the play takes on its tinkly charm. But by keeping its best foot backward, The Teahouse...